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Date:      Sun, 2 Oct 2022 14:48:47 -0700
From:      Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
To:        =?utf-8?Q?Klaus_K=C3=BCchemann?= <maciphone2@googlemail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>
Subject:   Re: u-boot debug, was: Re: U-boot on RPI3, sees disk but won't boot it
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On 2022-Oct-2, at 14:43, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 2022-Oct-2, at 13:18, Klaus K=C3=BCchemann =
<maciphone2@googlemail.com> wrote:
>=20
>> . . .
>>=20
>>> Am 02.10.2022 um 21:48 schrieb Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>:
>>>=20
>>> (RaspiOS and Ubuntu do not use U-Boot last I knew. So
>>> they do not make for good comparisons for the purpose
>>> as far as I know.)
>>=20
>> RaspiOS doesn=E2=80=99t , Ubuntu(and others) use u-boot since years =
=E2=80=A6
>> while possible Ubuntu(or others) have own u-boot patches ,
>> from guessing it seems more probable that they also will sometimes =
hang after (re)boot.
>=20
> Sufficiently modern Ubuntu does not use U-Boot by
> default, at least for server builds.
>=20
> ubuntu-22.04.1-preinstalled-server-arm64+raspi.img
> has:
>=20
> # more /mnt/config.txt=20
> [all]
> kernel=3Dvmlinuz
> . . .
>=20
> where vmlinux is seen as:
>=20
> /mnt/vmlinuz

I should have mentioned the naming convention that
is in use: vmlinuz is a compressed variant of vmlinux
as I remember the naming.

> No use of U-Boot: direct booting of vmlinux via
> the RPi* firmware's ability to do so.
>=20
> They do provide uboot_rpi_*.bin 's for folks that
> want to change to use such:
>=20
> /mnt/uboot_rpi_3.bin
> /mnt/uboot_rpi_4.bin
> /mnt/uboot_rpi_arm64.bin
>=20
> But the supplied config.txt makes no mention of any
> uboot*.bin and things have to be changed to cause
> a uboot_rpi_*.bin to be involved.


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




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