Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 08:21:43 -0800 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> Subject: Re: Raspbery Pi support (release notes/wiki page) update? Message-ID: <F389EF6D-238B-43DA-BEBD-82DAB5107CDB@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1284671542.924.1736419337261@localhost> References: <668r286o-584q-616o-5nq3-0233r3259qsr@yvfgf.mnoonqbm.arg> <E4887386-91C4-4B59-A119-D11C14F4991B@yahoo.com> <7sp0np90-0rnn-n327-qps0-358493p411rs@yvfgf.mnoonqbm.arg> <68B36F4A-76AD-4CEC-ACBA-3EEF6863BB04@yahoo.com> <1284671542.924.1736419337261@localhost>
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Hello Ronald, I'm away from all FreeBSD system access for a couple of weeks, doing things that need to take priority on my time. I do know that https://github.com/worproject/rpi5-uefi is not being actively updated by anyone, including its original author. It (in ACPI mode) is the only way I know how to FreeBSD-boot the only RPi5 that I (usually) have access to. Relative to the author's notes about the status, see: = https://github.com/worproject/rpi5-uefi/issues/18#issuecomment-2080098959 It says, in part: "I'm not actively working on it, but this doesn't mean it's dead - contributions are welcome." No contributions have been made. The last commit was on 2024-Mar-15. It also reports, relative to the (failed/incomplete) upstreaming: QUOTE (2024-Apr-26 material): =E2=80=A2 The TF-A port is upstreamed, minus one PCI patch that's = waiting on review. =E2=80=A2 I've also submitted the patches in my EDK2 base fork back in January, but I haven't heard anything since. The EDK2 review process is slow in general, at times non-existent (understandably, not many maintainers), so I just gave up on that idea. END QUOTE I also know that https://github.com/worproject/rpi5-uefi will not recognize the 16 GiByte of memory: The board revision code was used to assign the memory size. There is no use of anything that would track total_mem from config.txt . (That, in turn, controls what the live-dtb indicates for memory size and layout issues as I understand.) See: https://github.com/worproject/rpi5-uefi/issues/12 . Sorry for the news, Mark On Jan 9, 2025, at 02:42, Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws> wrote: Hi Mark, I just noticed an RPI5 with 16GB RAM became available [1]. Which = triggers my interest in an upgrade of my current RPI4/8GB used to build = aarch64 ports. I see that you have quite some experience in setting up the RPI5 with = knowledge expressed in several emails. Would you mind to setup a https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/RPI5 page and = collect your knowledge/experience there? When RPI5 works well in the future we can then merge the information = into https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Raspberry%20Pi. Regards, Ronald. [1] = https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/16gb-raspberry-pi-5-on-sale-now-at-120/ Van: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> Datum: maandag, 2 december 2024 22:43 Aan: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> CC: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Onderwerp: Re: Raspbery Pi support (release notes/wiki page) update? On Dec 2, 2024, at 12:43, Bjoern A. Zeeb = <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Nov 2024, Mark Millard wrote: > > I assume that all also means there's no way on FreeBSD to update the > eeprom contents on the RPi4/5[1] (contents replaced the bootcode.bin = on > older PIs.) I update the EEPROM's via booting a standard RaspiOS64 (my = abbreviation). That includes updating some defaults/definitions that can be stored in the EEPROM. (For example, I enable more debug output than is the default. That includes enabling BOOT_UART .) There are commands like: sudo -E rpi-eeprom-config --edit I'm not aware of FreeBSD having any such software, even via the ports tree. However, the description of the command is: QUOTE Editing the current bootloader configuration The following command loads the current bootloader configuration into a = text editor. When the editor is closed, rpi-eeprom-configapplies the = updated configuration to latest available bootloader release and uses = rpi-eeprom-update to schedule an update when the system is rebooted: END QUOTE In essence doing a (after the edit): sudo rpi-eeprom-update -a I do not have the references handy, but as I remember, this puts a file in the msdosfs that, if found at (re)boot, is automatically used to do the EEPROM update, well before U-boot is involved. So: putting a correctly formed file in the right place with the right name for a reboot to pick up is basic to the EEPROM update operation. The EEPROM contains the bootloader. The RPi5B has less that goes in the msdosfs (on the microsd card I use to boot the RPi5 via a separate USB3 drive): # find /RPi5-edk2/ -print /RPi5-edk2/ /RPi5-edk2/RPI_EFI.fd /RPi5-edk2/config.txt /RPi5-edk2/bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dtb Nothing analogous to start4*.elf or fixup4*.dat is involved. # more /RPi5-edk2/config.txt armstub=3DRPI_EFI.fd device_tree_address=3D0x1f0000 device_tree_end=3D0x210000 # Force 32 bpp framebuffer allocation. framebuffer_depth=3D32 # Disable compensation for displays with overscan. disable_overscan=3D1 # Force maximum USB power regardless of the power supply. usb_max_current_enable=3D1 # Force maximum CPU speed. force_turbo=3D1 # # Local additions: enable_uart=3D1 uart_2ndstage=3D1 dtdebug=3D1 disable_commandline_tags=3D1 # [pi5] over_voltage_delta=3D100000 arm_freq=3D2600 [all] > /bz > > > [1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/tree/master/ Releases: https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/releases Tagged: https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/tags (More is tagged than is eventually declared to also be a release.) =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com =20 =20 =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
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