Attempting to install on RPi4B w/ UEFI, having some problems

Klaus Cucinauomo maciphone2 at googlemail.com
Sun Sep 13 01:05:24 UTC 2020


> 
> M.Millard:
>> .if ${FLAVOR} == rpi4
> Von: Klaus <maciphone2 at googlemail.com>
> Betreff: Aw: Attempting to install on RPi4B w/ UEFI, having some problems
> 
> While in this case you would be right if you tell me, that the following is just a „guess“ :
> I guess you can completely forget and ignore the edkII in sysutils.. while I’m only guessing(guessing is now my favorite term ;-)  :
> It’s probably just a bulk-import of edkII without any intention to target and support  RPI4…
> I did NEVER guess in the Wiki(only I do this one guess here  and  only once) :-)
> 
Hmmm, quoting myself..hmm, before goin to have a sleep I wanted to know how good(or bad) I am in guessing (what I normally never do) :-) ....
So, hmmm, 1 wrong guess(the port in fact targets RPI4(&3) !) …( and 1 right guess)
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/de18ba58f56406625c04bcfc3a677fc969a32210/sysutils/edk2/Makefile
 I like the idea to support RPI4 in sysutils/edkII, nothing wrong with that idea ..
On the other side Mark Millard is right :
<<... But pftf/RPi4 is no longer strictly based on just edk2 …..>>

And there are some other things to pay attention to in rpi4-uefi-dev(-files)...

The right „guess": (for now no publicly or communicated intention to support  RPI4-uefi-dev  by any developer in FreeBSD…)..
( it’s unsupported and lacks many functionalities… specially when compared to u-boot/fdt)  :

> Am 10.09.2020 um 23:03 schrieb Greg V <greg at unrelenting.technology>:
> 
> I wanted to do the genet one but kinda don't have the time/motivation right now.

...
On the other side it would be quite unfair to remove the Wiki-entry of rpi4-uefi-dev because 
Greg did a very good job and the Wiki-article is very popular(because of the device itself),
I even receive private support-request-emails sometimes because of the article...
So I will leave the Wiki-entry untouched and the sysutils - maintainer is of course   invited to tell the Wiki 
something of the intention of the edkII-port and to where FreeBSD wants to go with RPI4-Uefi .

Regards
kls







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