Choose between Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB and ROCKPro64

[Emmanuel Vadot]

 Hi Klaus,

On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 12:55:41 -0700 (MST)
Klaus Küchemann via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> wrote:

> well,  after installing https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/u-boot-rockpro64/
> just for testing 
> I see u-boot.itb is missing(which is really needed). there are
> boot.img/trust.img/README& idbloader.img .
> as said, I have no problems booting the RockPro64 but I use a hacked version
> of 2019.10 -
> sysutils/u-boot-rockpro64 should be updated if there's really no u-boot.itb
> available .
> Also a 2019.10 - version with 115200 should help most users with cheap
> USB-dongles if they don't have another SBC available to connect UART .

 First of all, could you quote on your answer, it's really hard to
follow a discussion if you don't.

 And there is u-boot.itb :

manu at skull> sudo pkg install
u-boot-rockpro64 Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
        u-boot-rockpro64: 2019.10 [FreeBSD]

Number of packages to be installed: 1

The process will require 1 MiB more space.
303 KiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/1] Fetching u-boot-rockpro64-2019.10.txz: 100%  303 KiB 310.4kB/s
00:01 Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
[1/1] Installing u-boot-rockpro64-2019.10...
[1/1] Extracting u-boot-rockpro64-2019.10: 100%
manu at skull> ls
-l /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-rockpro64/ total 3
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  473933 Nov  9 19:37 idbloader.img
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     368 Nov  9 19:37 README
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  824140 Nov  9 19:37 u-boot.itb

 How did you test the port ?

 Cheers,

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