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Date:      Sat, 03 Apr 2021 07:58:17 -0500
From:      Mike Karels <mike@karels.net>
To:        Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Has anyone successfully booted the "B+" model of RPi3 via any of 13.0-RC3/4/5?
Message-ID:  <202104031258.133CwHau060776@mail.karels.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 02 Apr 2021 21:53:38 -0700. <632BDD3C-EB29-4E89-9069-E8E2D836AC28@yahoo.com>

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> Subject: Has anyone successfully booted the "B+" model of RPi3 via any o=
f
>  13.0-RC3/4/5?
> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 21:53:38 -0700
> To: freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
> From: Mark Millard via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>

I have RC3 running on a 1 GB RPi3B+:

FreeBSD 13.0-RC3 #0 releng/13.0-n244696-8f731a397ad: Fri Mar 19 05:54:12 U=
TC 2021
    root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/arm64.aarch64/sys/GENERI=
C arm64
FreeBSD clang version 11.0.1 (git@github.com:llvm/llvm-project.git llvmorg=
-11.0.1-0-g43ff75f2c3fe)
VT(efifb): resolution 1824x984
module firmware already present!
real memory  =3D 993841152 (947 MB)
avail memory =3D 947474432 (903 MB)

It has the same version of start4.elf that you cited.   I haven't done
much testing on it though.

		Mike


> I ask because:

> https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/commits/master

> shows a 2021-Mar-23 firmware update described as:

> "firmware: board-info: Fix memsize on 3B+"

> and 13.0-RC2 and before had other, more general
> problems from pre-2021-Feb-25 firmware.

> A sufficiently recent snapshot build of main [14]
> is also a good test but it is more difficult to check
> if it is recent enough (compared to just referencing
> the 13.0-RC* text):

> # strings /boot/*/start4.elf | grep VC_BUILD_ID_
> VC_BUILD_ID_USER: dom
> VC_BUILD_ID_TIME: 12:10:40
> VC_BUILD_ID_VARIANT: start
> VC_BUILD_ID_TIME: Feb 25 2021
> VC_BUILD_ID_BRANCH: bcm2711_2
> VC_BUILD_ID_HOSTNAME: buildbot
> VC_BUILD_ID_PLATFORM: raspberrypi_linux
> VC_BUILD_ID_VERSION: 564e5f9b852b23a330b1764bcf0b2d022a20afd0 (clean)

> (But the /boot/... style path presumes the boot was
> successful. Other means of mounting the media would
> otherwise be involved.)

> I do not have access to any old-style-revision code
> 0010 or 0013 RPi*'s (so B+: with 512 MiByte RAM) or
> new-style-revision code a020d3 RPi*'s (so: B+ with 1
> GiByte RAM). (These are the RPi3B's that have a "+"
> after the B: RPi3B+. "+" is not "and later" here.)

> =3D=3D=3D
> Mark Millard
> marklmi at yahoo.com
> ( dsl-only.net went
> away in early 2018-Mar)



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