Re: u-boot debug, was: Re: U-boot on RPI3, sees disk but won't boot it
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 04:44:06 UTC
On 2022-Oct-9, at 19:29, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote: > On 2022-Oct-9, at 17:28, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote: >> . . . >> Is it possible to boot ARMv7 on a Pi3 or Pi4? > > There is no ARMv7 EDK2 so far as I know. So the ARMv7 U-Boot would > need to be in use U-Boot and the ARMv7 RPi* firmware files would > need to be present. > > https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-os-64-bit/ (the end of > the BETA) is from this year. Prior to that the official support was > all ARMv7 or ARMv6 based. > >> That would let me >> set up a single SATA drive that could be tested on any host in >> my collection with any candidate USB-SATA bridge. > > As I understand, such could work. But I've not tested such > combinations. I doubt that those FreeBSD folks that developed > the RPi4B support did much testing of armv7 use then or since. > > I'm not sure how much RAM would be put to use on a RPi4B with > more than 2 GiBytes of RAM. My experiments indicate that the armv7 u-boot ( u-boot-rpi2 ) does not deal with the RPi4B's USB: U-Boot 2022.04 (May 13 2022 - 23:52:35 +0000) DRAM: alloc space exhausted 947 MiB RPI 4 Model B (0xd03114) Core: 195 devices, 9 uclasses, devicetree: board MMC: mmc@7e300000: 3, emmc2@7e340000: 0 Loading Environment from FAT... Card did not respond to voltage select! : -110 In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: No ethernet found. starting USB... No working controllers found Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 Card did not respond to voltage select! : -110 MMC Device 1 not found no mmc device at slot 1 MMC Device 2 not found no mmc device at slot 2 starting USB... No working controllers found USB is stopped. Please issue 'usb start' first. starting USB... No working controllers found . . . Also, if I had a EtherNet dongle plugged in, it did not even get that far. Note the "No ethernet found" as well (no dongle present). === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com