Booting FreeBSD on Rock64

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 21:51:43 +0900
Denis Polygalov <dpolyg at gmail.com> wrote:

> > On 16/07/2019 3:01 am, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> >   How did you setup the boot ?
> 
> download u-boot-flash-spi-rock64.img.xz from here:
> https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-u-boot/releases
> and flash it. Remove the microSD card.
> Setup tftp server and nfs servers.
> Reset the board, interrupt u-boot and switch to manual mode.
> Then type in terminal:
> dhcp
> tftpboot ${kernel_addr_r} boot/loader.efi
> tftpboot ${fdt_addr_r} boot/dtb/rockchip/rk3399-rockpro64.dtb

 You need to 'fdt addr ${fdt_addr_r}' here iirc

> bootefi ${kernel_addr_r} ${fdt_addr_r}
> 
> 
> >   Do you have tftpd running so u-boot can download the loader and the
> > dtb ?
> 
> yes, I do and I can see in the tftp server logs that both
> boot/loader.efi
> and boot/dtb/rockchip/rk3399-rockpro64.dtb
> are downloaded successfully.
> 
> >   If you don't have the dtb in $TFTPDIR/dtb/rockchip/ that might be the
> > problem, I recall the dtb included in u-boot being incomplete.
> 
> I'm using  dtb that is included into the
> FreeBSD-13.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-20190711-r349909-memstick.img
> 
> 
> >   I've just booted mine after updating to r350003+c99cb2e79ed6
> > without a problem.
> > 
> 
> Well, I don't see image of this release on the FreeBSD.org server.
> I guess you mean you compile it from source by yourself?
> 
> > On 16/07/2019 4:49 am, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> >> I'm running a Rock64 with
> >> U-Boot SPL 2017.09-rockchip-ayufan-1035-gd646df03ac (Oct 26 2018 - 08:35:43)
> >> and booting FreeBSD diskless.
> 
> I tried this old 1035 u-boot. No luck, same problem.
> 
> Regards,
> Denis.


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Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at freebsd.org>