Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:28:53 -0800 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RPi4 Status and xorg behavior (Mar 5 2021 firmware is bad for USB based booting) Message-ID: <24202B69-A5F2-41CF-A6F4-7113B76B9B0E@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <EC4C3040-E86A-45EC-9E4F-0E0F81ED3CBD@yahoo.com> References: <AAA4E495-4E9E-4C55-A07E-74D9737EC15B@yahoo.com> <20210307155515.GA4591@www.zefox.net> <67BF2EAC-04AD-4822-99B2-48A99563331F@yahoo.com> <G5ZAfvg49jl5dj40HAnjmwoEKpVSuGp8KmiBrSY_EBLXou6UGBIjU3tVxUuPGKeCvXEovg2d3tqhIGOmQCyb7c3wKsUHJ8xrSasvwXfbqwk=@protonmail.com> <4B963C56-D7E9-42FE-8B8B-B8A425ACE78F@yahoo.com> <20210308011035.GA6603@www.zefox.net> <DB3CD5BA-337E-476F-9F0C-C70401F7D800@yahoo.com> <C500EE5B-B483-4580-8C7C-9B9B013D726B@googlemail.com> <20210308173045.GB13739@www.zefox.net> <4D8FD8EE-6642-46ED-8AAE-CAECB36572F6@yahoo.com> <20210309023348.GA16279@www.zefox.net> <EC4C3040-E86A-45EC-9E4F-0E0F81ED3CBD@yahoo.com>
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On 2021-Mar-9, at 01:05, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote: > On 2021-Mar-8, at 18:33, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote: >=20 >> On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 10:56:15AM -0800, Mark Millard wrote: >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> Summary for current context: >>>=20 >>> (The below presumes that the msdosfs file system >>> involved is mounted on /boot/efi . Adjust as >>> needed for your context.) >>>=20 >>> # strings /boot/efi/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) >>>=20 >>=20 >> On my setup I get >> bob@generic:/boot/msdos % strings start4.elf | grep VC_BUILD_ID_ = =20 >>=20 >> VC_BUILD_ID_USER: dom = =20 >>=20 >> VC_BUILD_ID_TIME: 12:55:10 = =20 >>=20 >> VC_BUILD_ID_VARIANT: start = =20 >>=20 >> VC_BUILD_ID_TIME: Mar 5 2021 = =20 >>=20 >> VC_BUILD_ID_BRANCH: bcm2711_2 = =20 >>=20 >> VC_BUILD_ID_HOSTNAME: buildbot = =20 >>=20 >> VC_BUILD_ID_PLATFORM: raspberrypi_linux = =20 >>=20 >> VC_BUILD_ID_VERSION: 8ed5b5711855476273c45bb0754d9e23903a42e7 (clean) >>=20 >>=20 >> Start4.elf was one of the files copied from the link Manu posted. >>=20 >> I've not yet tried commenting out hdmi_safe=3D1 in config.txt >> but will at the next reboot. Right now the machine is doing >> a world/kernel build. There is another firmware update to fix that Mar 5 2021 firmware for USB booting --or you could try the firmware tagged as 1.20120303 . So: = https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/0591568b29a724de406aa737fc8e1= 3f68c423f3f/boot/ (temporarily where = https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot/ points) or (tag based): https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/1.20210303/boot/ or (indirectly tag based): modern sysutils/rpi-firmware build content (1.20210303 as well)=20 > I last did buildworld buildkernel on a RPi4B 8 GiByte > was back in mid Jan of 2021. A summary is: >=20 > ENVIRONMENT: -mcpu=3Dcortex-a72 RPi4B @ 2000 MHz = (sdram_freq_min=3D3200), hw.physmem:8464072704 : >=20 > World build completed on Tue Jan 19 07:33:02 PST 2021 > World built in 29226 seconds, ncpu: 4, make -j4 > Kernel build for GENERIC-NODBG completed on Tue Jan 19 08:10:58 PST = 2021 > Kernel(s) GENERIC-NODBG built in 2276 seconds, ncpu: 4, make -j4 >=20 > So World+Kernel took somewhat under 9 hrs to build based on > a context for which: >=20 > make[1]: "/usr/fbsd/mm-src/Makefile.inc1" line 339: SYSTEM_COMPILER: = Determined that CC=3Dcc matches the source tree. Not bootstrapping a = cross-compiler. > make[1]: "/usr/fbsd/mm-src/Makefile.inc1" line 344: SYSTEM_LINKER: = Determined that LD=3Dld matches the source tree. Not bootstrapping a = cross-linker. >=20 > This was based on main 818390ce0ca5 and was building > itself from scratch, doing a non-debug build on a > non-debug system that had been built with -mcpu=3Dcortex-a72 > in use as well. >=20 > # ~/fbsd-based-on-what-freebsd-main.sh=20 > merge-base: 818390ce0ca539300dd15d7a817784f1e3f7a9b8 > merge-base: CommitDate: 2021-01-13 21:27:44 +0000 > 4180404713ec (HEAD -> mm-src) mm-src snapshot for mm's patched build = in git context. > 818390ce0ca5 (freebsd/main, freebsd/HEAD, pure-src, main) arm64: fix = early devmap assertion > FreeBSD RPi4B 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT = mm-src-c255938-g4180404713ec GENERIC-NODBG arm64 aarch64 1300135 = 1300135 >=20 > As is normal for small boards with USB3 in my context: a > USB3 SSD UFS2+SU file system on USB3 port and no use of > tmpfs or the like. microsd card not in use. Swap partition > used. >=20 =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar)
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