Re: Some issues related to the port of Raspberry Pi.

From: ykla <yklaxds_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2023 18:30:45 UTC
In
https://github.com/FreeBSD-Ask/freebsd-ports/tree/main/sysutils/rpi-firmware
we are indeed using the same version of Raspberry Pi firmware i.e.
1.20230405, I am using freebsd 13.2 release of u-boot, which one are you
using?

Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> 于 2023年7月30日周日 上午2:07写道:

> On Jul 29, 2023, at 09:23, ykla <yklaxds@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > However, strangely, when I replaced the rpi4-firmware in the ports with
> the latest version from the official Raspberry Pi source and copied it to a
> USB drive, the system started to loop with the following code.
> >
> > ---------------
> >
> > Net: eth0:ethernet@7d580000
> > PCIe BRCM: link up, 5.0 Gbps x1 (SSC)
> > starting USB……
> > Bus xhci_pci:Reglster 58000420 NbrPorts 5
> > Starting the contorller
> > USB XHCI 1.00
> > scanning bug xhci_pci for devices... Unexpected XHCI event TRB, Skipping
> > 6a0 000000004 01000000 01008401)
>
> That output looks like U-Boot output, before FreeBSD's UEFI loader
> has been loaded. (I'd be  more sure if there was more context.) Of
> course the RPi* firmware and .dtb starts being involved before
> U-Boot starts and, so, is involved.
>
> I actually use my own U-Boot build, in part because some of my USB3
> boot media require something like a usb_pgood_delay for U-Boot to
> tolerate them. My in-use build is based on 2023.01 :
>
> # strings /boot/efi/u-boot.bin.2023.01.arm64 | grep "U-Boot 20"
> U-Boot 2023.01 (Feb 06 2023 - 08:06:49 +0000)
>
> (My config.txt references that name.)
>
> So, the later material below is not based on the same U-Boot that
> you are using.
>
> > ---------------
> > The original author seems to have abandoned the project, so I forked a
> copy from the ports archive. You can find it here:
> https://github.com/FreeBSD-Ask/rpi3-psci-monitor and
> https://github.com/FreeBSD-Ask/freebsd-ports/tree/main/sysutils/rpi-firmware
> > I don't understand programming very well. Can someone help me with this
> problem?
> >
> > Additionally, the author of raspberrypi-userland (who is the same person
> as the firmware's port author) has also deleted the project. There is
> currently no upstream for this project
> >
> > The current Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB version has issues with booting. The
> current u-boot booting process gets stuck at the rainbow screen.see also
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=272792
> > If someone could provide assistance, I would be very grateful.
> >
> > I'm not sure if the upstream has made any fixes for this issue.
> >
>
> I expect that you may not be using an officially tagged release
> but instead are using a development version of the RPi* firmware.
> I avoid the development versions when I can.
>
> I had no trouble with the firmware-1.20230405 materials, the
> most recent tagged release available. The RPi4B context is
> the 8 GiByte Rev 1.5 with the "C0T" part number label on the
> top of the SOC.
>
> The tagged versions are available via:
>
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tags/
>
> The most recent there is:
>
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/releases/tag/1.20230405/
>
> I downloaded:
>
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/archive/refs/tags/1.20230405.tar.gz
>
> and did:
>
> # tar -xf 1.20230405.tar.gz firmware-1.20230405/boot/
> firmware-1.20230405/README.md
> # rm ~/firmware-1.20230405/boot/kernel*.img
>
> to extract the relvent material.
>
> I updated one of the RPi4B USB3 boot media to have this firmware
> (and .dtb's) in its msdosfs file system.
>
> It booted the 8 GiByte RPi4B Rev 1.5 just fine (based, in
> part, on my U-Boot build, however).
>
> The media I picked to test with has not had its FreeBSD updated
> in a while:
>
> # uname -apKU
> FreeBSD CA72_UFS 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #90
> main-n261544-cee09bda03c8-dirty: Wed Mar 15 20:25:49 PDT 2023
>  root@CA72_16Gp_ZFS:/usr/obj/BUILDs/main-CA72-nodbg-clang/usr/main-src/arm64.aarch64/sys/GENERIC-NODBG-CA72
> arm64 aarch64 1400082 1400082
>
> ===
> Mark Millard
> marklmi at yahoo.com
>
>