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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:36:43 -0600
From:      Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?Klaus_K=C3=BCchemann?= <maciphone2@googlemail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: arm64 as Tier 1 for FreeBSD 13
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On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 2:33 PM Klaus K=C3=BCchemann
<maciphone2@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Am 30.01.2020 um 20:55 schrieb Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>:
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 1:49 PM Klaus K=C3=BCchemann via freebsd-arm
> > <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Am 30.01.2020 um 17:50 schrieb bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>:
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 04:16:48PM +0100, Klaus K??chemann via freebs=
d-arm wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> If somebody answers here : " yes, I want a HowTo and will help the f=
bsd-project",
> >>>> I'll write a HowTo. ;-). If nobody wants to boot FreeBSD on the crap=
py RPI4 we can't help out :-)
> >>>
> >>> I'll bite. I'd like to see a set of instructions for making FreeBSD b=
oot on a Pi4
> >>> and will help the FreeBSD foundation. My CD-ROM subscription seems to=
 have stopped
> >>> coming, so I'll send a donation direct to the Foundation.
> >>>
> >>> It's worth remembering that FreeBSD, along with the rest of the open-=
source
> >>> movement, started with ports to the IPM PC-AT, a "crappy" platform by=
 most
> >>> accounts of the day.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for reading,
> >>>
> >>> bob prohaska
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards
> >>>> Klaus
> >>>> _______________________________________________
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g=E2=80=9C
> >>>>
> >>
> >> Hi Bob,
> >>
> >> wow, hot discussion here :-)
> >> `was more a "joke=E2=80=9C  with the =E2=80=9Epromise to help FreeBSD=
=E2=80=9C or in other words I didn=E2=80=99t think of money,
> >> With =E2=80=9Ahelp' I meant bug reports( in best case with patches), r=
eading sourc- codes src .
> >>
> >> O.K., I=E2=80=99ll write a tutorial to the FreeBSD- forums tonight.
> >> But to say it here first, point 6 of Kyle Evans with the 2 question ma=
rks is :
> >>
> >> Copying the firmware from RPI-foundation to the SD-card  is step 6 whi=
ch will make the RPI4 bootable from uSD =E2=80=A6.
> >
> > The RPI3 image already has the appropriate firmware on it, installed
> > from sysutils/rpi-firmware.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Kyle Evans
>
> Hi Kyle,
>
> what you mean is u-boot.bin from sysutils, but there=E2=80=99s a lot more=
 to copy -
> with me it began to work flawlessly with the other files from RPI-foundat=
ion  ..
> I=E2=80=99ll write something for the public in the forums tonight when I=
=E2=80=99m back from the office ..
> Last SD-card I prepared is approx. 1 week ago, so of course some things m=
ight have been changed
> in src head...
>

I think there's some kind of impedance mismatch here, but I'm not sure
where. The steps are exactly as I wrote for the last RPi4 I stood up,
and shouldn't have changed in the past month or two, even. You should
only need to bring your own U-Boot and copy the rpi4 config.txt over.



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