Report: FreeBSD on Rpi4 8 GB model

[Kyle Evans]

On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 2:45 PM Robert Crowston <crowston at protonmail.com> wrote:
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> > No, SPIN_PAGES=2 is fine
>
> I confirm that CONFIG_RPI_EFI_NR_SPIN_PAGES 2 is sufficient.
>

Thanks for confirming. :-)

> > Even without this setting, it should still largely boot;
> > you'll just only have half the memory you wanted.
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> Without raising the spin pages limit, the kernel panics while trying to start the secondary CPUs. I don't have a working JTAG so I can't diagnose exactly why, but the spin table thing seemed like an obvious thing to check.
>

Sorry, that was specifically referring to raising CONFIG_NR_DRAM_BANKS
-- an unmodified sysutils/u-boot-rpi4 (which uses
CONFIG_RPI_EFI_NR_SPIN_PAGES=2) should boot with half the RAM
recognized, and bumping CONFIG_NR_DRAM_BANKS in our fragment should
correct that.