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Date:      Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:16:49 -0800
From:      Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
To:        void <void@f-m.fm>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: current for arm64 tries tftp first for some reason
Message-ID:  <0DB5FDFB-184F-4260-A060-ED6A6CAFE546@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <ZZ8Zfz40N6XTbdZf@int21h>
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On Jan 10, 2024, at 14:26, void <void@f-m.fm> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 09:37:54PM -0800, Mark Millard wrote:
>=20
>> For the RPi4B context I'm dealing with I let the first
>> time boot go through all its TFTP failures. It produced
>> a:
>>=20
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel uarch      88 Dec 30 00:00:00 1979 =
/boot/efi/ubootefi.var
>>=20
>> that was not there originally. I wonder if it gives a
>> means of control over such things that would be
>> remembered?
>=20
> Unfortunately not. It still goes through tftp 10 or so cycles then =
boots
> the usb3 device. This makes boot time take 10 mins or so rather than
> the usual 20 or so seconds.
>=20
> There is a TUI uefi shell at the uboot stage one can invoke if
> quick enough (within 3s) the only selectable thing to boot (and it was =
already selected) is usb 0:1.
>=20
> Not sure what to do now - maybe compare whats in the efi partition to
> the latest github versions. Also unsure whether it's a uboot issue or =
a freebsd one,

U-Boot is doing tftp activity before the FreeBSD UEFI
loader has been found to be loaded. So either the
sysutils/u-boot* port's choices for how/what to build
or U-Boot itself if building can not control the issue.

> or if it can be fixed with one of the u-boot ports.


=3D=3D=3D
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com




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