Re: https://github.com/pftf/RPi4 unusable for FreeBSD since at least Sept 2023

On Jan 20, 2024, at 10:20, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Jan 20, 2024, at 09:27, void <void@f-m.fm> wrote:
> 
>> I found there were i/o performance problems with 13.1 msdos materials and 14-stable OS,
>> so tried again this time with the very latest -current 
>> FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20240118-7a4d1d1df0b2-267640.img
>> and wrote that in the usual way to the usb3 disk and this time it didn't 
>> try tftp booting, so, this problem is 'fixed'.
> 
> That likely has U-Boot 2024.01 instead.
> 
>> The only downside being that I couldn't make different ufs2 partitions with this
>> installation method obviously.
>> 
>> But it's not really a 'downside'; I'll live with it. disk i/o performance seems to be
>> fine so far. Thanks everyone for your help & suggestions.
> 
> Glad you got an acceptable combination.
> 
> I'll note that pkg base is also providing a non-DEBUG
> main [so: 15] kernel, in addition to the DEBUG one.
> (Both have symbols available.) I just started my pkg
> base experiments last night. (I started from a
> snapshot.) pkg base does not directly deal with some
> of the msdosfs content of itself. But it can provide
> for regular updates being available and installable
> without building from source code, including the
> non-debug kernel.
> 
> I've also set up a pkg base stable/14 media.
> 
> pkg base may make 1 GiByte stable/* and main systems
> viable longer by avoiding buidlworld buildkernel and
> such (for those needing no tailoring that buildworld
> buildkernel allow for).
> 

By the way:

https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-platforms/tree/master/Platform/RaspberryPi/RPi4

Reports in the status section of the page about using
EDK2 UEFI/fdt related modes in its implementation:

QUOTE
• Device Tree boot of OSes such as Linux may not work at all. For this reason, the provision of a Device Tree is disabled by default in the user settings, in order to enforce ACPI boot.
END QUOTE

There is some question for if various notes have been kept
up to date. Still . . .


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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com