Trouble booting the April 23 snapshot for rpi3

bob prohaska fbsd at www.zefox.net
Thu Apr 30 02:22:21 UTC 2020


On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 06:45:30PM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2020-Apr-29, at 17:11, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 09:10:58PM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:
> >> 
> >> So, unless the snapshot process built these from more recent
> >> source, the snapshot would not have Kyle's changes and the
> >> old problems would exist.
> > 
> > Is it certain Kyle's patches made it into -current? 
> 
> The change was not to FreeBSD at all (any vintage). The
> change was only to the ports:
> 
> sysutils/u-boot-rpi[34]
> 
> so that the result would have a sufficient number of
> pages indicated reserved (in the right place). In turn
> the kernel automatically avoids using those pages.
> 
> Snapshot builds for the like of RPi3 and RPi4 (and others)
> have more than just FreeBSD in the image: one or more
> ports contribute material as well. It is a separate
> question which vintage of the ports are used to make
> snapshots.
> 
Ahh, that's a distinction that escaped me entirely. 

Would anybody be interested in taking the snapshot down,
since it doesn't boot? The 12.1 snapshot works fine. 

Thank you!

bob prohaska


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