Rpi-firmware notes

[Mark Millard]

On 2021-Jan-9, at 01:02, portscout at freebsd.org <portscout at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Dear port maintainer,
> 
> The portscout new distfile checker has detected that one or more of your
> ports appears to be out of date. Please take the opportunity to check
> each of the ports listed below, and if possible and appropriate,
> submit/commit an update. If any ports have already been updated, you can
> safely ignore the entry.
> 
> You will not be e-mailed again for any of the port/version combinations
> below.
> 
> Full details can be found at the following URL:
> http://portscout.freebsd.org/uboot@freebsd.org.html
> 
> 
> Port                                            | Current version | New version
> ------------------------------------------------+-----------------+------------
> sysutils/rpi-firmware                           | 1.20201201.g20201201| 1.20210108.master
> ------------------------------------------------+-----------------+------------
> 
> 
. . .

I will note that pftf/RPi4 (the UEFI/ACPI software) has
reverted to using RPi firmware from before 2020.12.08 as
of 3 days ago. For why, see:

https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/1518

For what they changed in what they extract:

https://github.com/pftf/RPi4/commit/8fcd5bc6fd04e78cf8460f51767393407516724e

pftf/RPi4 is now using:

https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/raw/08ed7a0c9ad4d9db559aaec462520ab435c7ce1c/boot/

to select just start4.elf and fixup4.dat .

===
Mark Millard
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