rpi4 headless experience

[Herbert J. Skuhra]

On Wed, 20 May 2020 05:56:37 +0200, Mark Millard wrote:

> 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 .

The files listed above are all included on the RPI3 aarch64 image (e.g.:
FreeBSD-13.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI3-20200514-r361019.img) and I
think I have also tried to replace u-boot.bin.

--
Herbert