Re: When will FreeBSD support RPI5?

On 31.12.2023 20.37, John Kennedy wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 06:05:25PM +0100, Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen wrote:
>> On 29.12.2023 05.55, ykla wrote:
>>> Hi, When will FreeBSD support RPI5
>> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/raspberry-pi-5-status.91406/
>    Having ordered my RPI5 ~11/28, I think it has a shipping guesstimate in late
> Jan/early Feb.  It looks like someone is working on uboot, which FreeBSD seems
> to favor (I think the argument I retained was "it works for lots of things,
> piggyback on those efforts rather than have some RPI-unique thing).  Then once
> you start getting things properly enumerated to where you can load the kernel,
> then you work on the kernel drivers.
>
>    RPI seems to favor linux support first, and I suspect that there is a fair
> amount of GPL issues that you might have to worry about creeping into the BSD
> kernel.  So not as simple as reimplement from what you see in linux.  I know
> there are a lot of strong opinions on video drivers, for example, but for that
> to even ben an option it'd have to be something that could be a module that
> could be packaged outside of the BSD base.  I only bring that up because I've
> had garbage luck trying to get serial consoles to work properly on RPIs when
> they're competing for things like cooling fans and such, so graphics console
> is nice, even if it is just very basic.
>
>    How have people been chicken-n-egging the initial setup?  I know there have
> been uboot issues in the past.  Seems like you basically have to build memstick
> style images and see if they boot.  Is there a bhyve/QEMU setup that is a
> generic test setup that is used?

I just built a patched u-boot and uses a stock rpi img snapshot, then 
cross build and move the kernel to the rpi sd card..

no qemu emulates all the phys. hw in the rpi5..