Re: RPI5 16GB panic on boot [.dtb files]

On Feb 3, 2025, at 18:43, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Feb 3, 2025, at 17:03, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 3, 2025, at 13:11, Klaus Cucinauomo <maciphone2@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> ) Historically FreeBSD makes no use of the linux-mainline *.dts* sources
>>>> for RPi* systems.
>>>> 
>>>> ) I'm not sure of the RPi folks even publish the *.dts* sources required
>>>> to reproduce the binary files that they distribute.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Mark,
>>> 
>>> I'm sure you'll be a very important troubleshooter/bughunter again for RPI support, no one does it as well as you :-)
>>> ... but let us clarify one important thing:
>>> Every FreeBSD DeviceTreeSource(or compiled dtb) is a Linux(or RPILinux)-mainline-only source
>> 
>> Wrong for where/how FreeBSD gets the dtb files for the RPi*'s.
>> See https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/sysutils/rpi-firmware and its
>> Makefile as a start for seeing how /usr/src/release/arm64/RPI.conf
>> gets the dtb's that are used: release/arm64/RPI.conf uses the
>> installed materials from sysutils/rpi-firmware .
>> 
>> The installation of sysutils/rpi-firmware put in place:
>> 
>> # ls -C1 /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/*.dtb
>> /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/bcm2708-rpi-b-plus.dtb
>> /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/bcm2708-rpi-b-rev1.dtb
>> /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/bcm2708-rpi-b.dtb
>> /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/bcm2708-rpi-cm.dtb
>> /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/bcm2708-rpi-zero-w.dtb
>> /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/bcm2708-rpi-zero.dtb
>> /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb
>> /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/bcm2709-rpi-cm2.dtb
>> /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/bcm2710-rpi-2-b.dtb
>> /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb
>> /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb
>> /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/bcm2710-rpi-cm3.dtb
>> /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/bcm2710-rpi-zero-2-w.dtb
>> /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/bcm2710-rpi-zero-2.dtb
>> /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb
>> /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/bcm2711-rpi-400.dtb
>> /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/bcm2711-rpi-cm4-io.dtb
>> /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/bcm2711-rpi-cm4.dtb
>> 
>> without compiling any *.dts* files, instead getting
>> binaries from a RPi specific place (which is not just
>> mainline linux for RPi* 's): see sysutils/rpi-firmware
>> for details.
>> 
>> /usr/src/release/arm64/RPI.conf in turn uses that
>> port/package and an internal definition:
>> 
>> DTB_DIR="/usr/local/share/rpi-firmware"
>> 
>> for forming paths as were to copy the files from for making the
>> official distribution materials:
>> 
>>       for _DF in ${DTB_FILES}; do
>>               chroot ${CHROOTDIR} cp -p ${DTB_DIR}/${_DF} \
>>                       ${FATMOUNT}/${_DF}
>>       done
>> 
>>> , and every dts(i) is OpenSourced in RPI-linux and all upcoming patches are OpenSourced in mailing lists of e.g. the bootloader.
>> 
>> There may be sources present from the RPi folks but FreeBSD
>> does not compile them and does not have those sources in
>> its https://git.FreeBSD.org/src.git .
>> 
>> The RPi folks instead have things in:
>> 
>> https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/commits/rpi-6.6.y/arch/arm/boot/dts/
>> 
>> Note that this area is not a just a copy of the linux mainline.
>> Nor is it a copy from files from a U-Boot distribution.
>> 
>> 
>>> Or so: they(torvalds&RPI&u-boot) upstream/downstream whatever they think is useful,
>>> there are a lot of experst doing that daily  and we should not stay so far behind them forever.
>> 
> 
> This is just an extra note about looking up the RPi
> folks linux source by their own tags, such as the
> recent stable_20250127 tag:
> 
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/tags
> 
> shows the tags and can get to to .zip or .tar.gz files
> for the sources. Using that tag as an example one can
> use the likes of:
> 
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/tree/stable_20250127
> 
> to get you to a browser and you can browse into the
> likes of:
> 
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/tree/stable_20250127/arch/arm/boot/dts
> 
> Again: FreeBSD and sysutils/rpi-firmware do not access
> or compile such sources.
> 
> The *.dtb files can be browsed to via the likes of:
> 
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/ or one of its branches
> or tags via looking in the cintained boot folder. The README
> reports, in part:
> 
> QUOTE
>    • boot:
>        • start*.elf, fixup*.dat and bootcode.bin are the GPU firmwares and bootloader. Their licence is described in boot/LICENCE.broadcom.
>        • The kernel.img files are builds of the Linux kernel, released under the GPL (see boot/COPYING.linux)
>        • The dtbs, overlays and associated README are built from Linux kernel sources, released under the GPL (see boot/COPYING.linux)
> END QUOTE
> 
> There is also https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-firmware/
> that also has such (without the tags) but is in a smaller
> repository for cloning (subset): "These are mirrored in a
> separate repo from the official one, because for updating
> the firmware, we're only interested in the files in the boot
> folder of the official repo. Git doesn't provide a way to
> clone only a single subfolder of a repo, and downloading
> the entire repo including the sample code and VC libs would
> take too long."

As for what *.dtb files U-Boot can use for RPi* 's . . .

FYI: https://docs.u-boot.org/en/latest/board/broadcom/raspberrypi.html
reports that the "rpi_arm64_defconfig" uses the .dtb file
provided by the RPi folks instead of U-Boot's embedded one:

QUOTE
rpi_arm64_defconfig uses the device-tree provided by the firmware instead of the embedded one. It allows to use the same U-Boot binary to boot different boards.
END QUOTE

It is listed as supporting:

QUOTE
    • rpi_arm64_defconfig - Raspberry Pi 3b - Raspberry Pi 3b+ - Raspberry Pi 4b - Raspberry Pi 400 - Raspberry Pi CM 3 - Raspberry Pi CM 3+ - Raspberry Pi CM 4 - Raspberry Pi zero 2 w
END QUOTE

===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com