Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 13:50:15 -0700 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: Klaus Cucinauomo <maciphone2@googlemail.com> Cc: Robert Crowston <crowston@protonmail.com>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RPi4B: modern firmware vs. Device tree loaded to 0x4000 (size 0xbe0c) [fails] vs. to 0x1f0000 (size 0xbd90) [works]? Message-ID: <E27E1C18-F52E-4CA9-AEBC-9207942C2DBE@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <B41799BF-D6AE-4867-8242-8A6A486B8C25@googlemail.com> References: <2B1B21CB-1A63-42CE-8917-98870C88CACE@yahoo.com> <F8DBF042-FD57-4AE3-8F98-0E36945469A9@yahoo.com> <3E9D015B-5702-4A52-9366-49E20BDDA5F4@googlemail.com> <tN5C4jzmxPmrt22GDxOfVidCT4I48oCyxVjfwxOdPAZpkQC1qBbhegOnnbkamnvGD-x81AxG5CorI1NIzfLf-91zcgOmQR0WtLrJ83PJJtI=@protonmail.com> <E07B6781-50E3-4A52-B582-F9EE81FE6743@googlemail.com> <cbC3hMQdQvaguB9vLBwvByx3_6cRzhxoJrMKL56_7RBNdwwPBudHiZpwfDEqUz2w34Ksv-fuo-5Iq-_0L_lfNdR5YEZDYudY1YGvshFl3Co=@protonmail.com> <68F95FE2-2FD7-4E7C-A671-8B45C445EF54@yahoo.com> <004BFE7F-6C71-4595-AA24-9D66D8C4E672@googlemail.com> <B224EA53-E8C0-4A5C-A2CD-526D7FFF6E55@yahoo.com> <B41799BF-D6AE-4867-8242-8A6A486B8C25@googlemail.com>
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On 2020-Oct-11, at 13:29, Klaus Cucinauomo <maciphone2@googlemail.com> = wrote: > Am 11.10.2020 um 22:21 schrieb Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>: >>=20 >> It was about why something like "device_tree_address=3D0x4000" is >> needed when something like armstub8-gic.bin is in use. >> ....the naming conventions involved in finding armstub*.bin'sallow = the file to be renamed in order to not be found,instead ofhaving to = delete the file. >=20 >=20 > As also Rob proved in a previous post afaik, > The latest rpi-FW is bootable even if the complete device_tree_address = -line is DELETED :-) Ha Ha=20 > or to say : outcommented, if you like that more=E2=80=A6 My message that you misreplied to reported an example where that did not work and what is happening when it did not work. Rob proved that it does not always fail. He did not prove that the mechanism involved generally or always works when device_tree_address is left unset. =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar)
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