rpi4 headless experience

Wed May 20 04:46:32 UTC 2020

Fair point.  I was just folling the wiki which said - RPI4 users, use the 
RPi3 version :-)

No worries, I can wait.  Sorry for the noise.

Dan

On Tue, 19 May 2020, Mark Millard wrote:

>
> On 2020-May-19, at 19:52, Dan Mack <mack at macktronics.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks for that info - this is my first foray into fbsd on arm so I might be messing something up.  As a test I swapped in an alpine linux sdcard and booted the same rpi4-4 and this is what it reports for cpu and memory.   What the heck am I doing wrong?  :-)
>>
>> # alpine
>>
>> Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0000000000 [0x410fd083]
>> Linux version 5.4.12-0-rpi4 (buildozer at build-3-11-aarch64) version 9.2.0 (Alpine 9.2.0)) #1-Alpine SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 16 Machine model: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.1
>>
>> pi4f:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
>> processor	: 0
>> BogoMIPS	: 108.00
>> Features	: fp asimd evtstrm crc32 cpuid
>> CPU implementer	: 0x41
>> CPU architecture: 8
>> CPU variant	: 0x0
>> CPU part	: 0xd08
>> CPU revision	: 3
>>
>> processor	: 1
>> BogoMIPS	: 108.00
>> Features	: fp asimd evtstrm crc32 cpuid
>> CPU implementer	: 0x41
>> CPU architecture: 8
>> CPU variant	: 0x0
>> CPU part	: 0xd08
>> CPU revision	: 3
>>
>> processor	: 2
>> BogoMIPS	: 108.00
>> Features	: fp asimd evtstrm crc32 cpuid
>> CPU implementer	: 0x41
>> CPU architecture: 8
>> CPU variant	: 0x0
>> CPU part	: 0xd08
>> CPU revision	: 3
>>
>> processor	: 3
>> BogoMIPS	: 108.00
>> Features	: fp asimd evtstrm crc32 cpuid
>> CPU implementer	: 0x41
>> CPU architecture: 8
>> CPU variant	: 0x0
>> CPU part	: 0xd08
>> CPU revision	: 3
>>
>> Hardware	: BCM2835
>> Revision	: c03111
>> Serial		: 100000002b2bb8fd
>> Model		: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.1
>>
>> pi4f:~# cat /proc/meminfo
>> MemTotal:        3890684 kB
>> MemFree:         3739844 kB
>> <snip>
>>
>> Since others are not seeing the memory discrepency, more investigation is warranted on my end.
>>
>> Take care.
>>
>> Dan
>
> I just realized that your original message said:
>
> "Just tried the latest FreeBSD on RPI image on my rpi4-4GB system."
>
> There is no such image for the RPi4. Looking at:
>
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-snapshots/2020-May/000698.html
>
> shows:
>
> o 13.0-CURRENT aarch64 GENERIC
> o 13.0-CURRENT aarch64 RPI3
> o 13.0-CURRENT aarch64 PINE64
> o 13.0-CURRENT aarch64 PINE64-LTS
> o 13.0-CURRENT aarch64 PINEBOOK
> o 13.0-CURRENT aarch64 ROCK64
> o 13.0-CURRENT aarch64 ROCKPRO64
>
> Treating an RPi4 as a RPi3 is not going to
> make everything work: it does not have
> the right variant of u-boot, for example.
>
> The following lists installed files from ports:
>
> sysutils/u-boot-rpi[34]
> sysutils/rpi-firmware
>
> The installations of the 2 prots only puts the files
> someplace so they (or some) can later be copied to the
> msdos file system involved.
>
> # ls -ldT /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-rpi[34]/*
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     124 Apr 25 00:16:57 2020 /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-rpi3/README
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      37 Apr 25 00:16:55 2020 /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-rpi3/metadata
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  499824 Apr 25 00:16:54 2020 /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-rpi3/u-boot.bin
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     124 Apr 25 13:28:34 2020 /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-rpi4/README
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      37 Apr 25 13:28:34 2020 /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-rpi4/metadata
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  506360 Apr 25 13:28:34 2020 /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-rpi4/u-boot.bin
>
> If you replaced the u-boot.bin in the msdos file system
> with the rpi4 one the memory might well show correctly.
>
> There is also:
>
> # ls -ldT /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/*
> . . .
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        89 Jan 30 13:26:19 2020 /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/config.txt
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       147 Jan 30 13:26:19 2020 /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/config_rpi3.txt
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       135 Jan 30 13:26:20 2020 /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/config_rpi4.txt
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       110 Jan 30 13:26:19 2020 /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/config_rpi_0_w.txt
> . . .
>
> where you would need to copy the config_rpi4.txt content
> to the config.txt in use on the msdos file system.
>
> There are other files for the RPi4 from the list as well.
> I've not checked a rpi3 snapshot do know if the snapshot
> has copies of RPi4 specific files:
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      5888 Jan 30 13:26:31 2020 /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/armstub8-gic.bin
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     40659 Nov 22 09:06:45 2019 /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      6193 Nov 22 09:06:45 2019 /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/fixup4.dat
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      3089 Nov 22 09:06:45 2019 /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/fixup4cd.dat
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      9181 Nov 22 09:06:45 2019 /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/fixup4db.dat
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      9183 Nov 22 09:06:45 2019 /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/fixup4x.dat
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   2775076 Nov 22 09:06:45 2019 /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/start4.elf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    775872 Nov 22 09:06:45 2019 /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/start4cd.elf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   4582664 Nov 22 09:06:45 2019 /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/start4db.elf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   3536680 Nov 22 09:06:45 2019 /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/start4x.elf
>
> in the msdosfs file system.
>
> Note (where config.txt is a copy/variant of
> config_rpi4.txt by content):
>
> # more /boot/efi/config.txt
> arm_control=0x200
> arm_64bit=1
> dtoverlay=disable-bt
> dtoverlay=mmc
> device_tree_address=0x4000
> kernel=u-boot.bin
> armstub=armstub8-gic.bin
>
> So, without armstub8-gic.bin being present
> in the msdos file system, the RPi4 config.txt
> content would then specify a missing file.
> Similarly for u-boot.bin .
>
> ===
> Mark Millard
> marklmi at yahoo.com
> ( dsl-only.net went
> away in early 2018-Mar)
>
>