Re: onboard wireless on rpi4

Mark Millard via freebsd-arm <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 2020-Sep-4, at 07:29, Kyle Evans <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 9:23 AM tech-lists <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 05:07:50PM +0300, Stefan Parvu wrote:
>>>> Is the onboard wifi on the rpi4 working in -current?
>>> 
>>> Nope. Does not even work on RBPI3/3B+. It is work in progress. We are waiting too.
>> 
>> ok, thanks for clarifying. Is there anything more up-to-date on status of
>> FreeBSD on rpi4 (apart from https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Raspberry%20Pi which
>> was last updated on 2020-06-16).
>> 
> 
> Thanks to good work by Rob and others, we're likely at a point where
> it makes sense to deprecate sysutils/u-boot-rpi4 and patch
> sysutils/u-boot-rpi3 to work for both -- IIRC, that patch would just
> modify the fragment to increase <mumble>DRAM_BANKS so that one can use
> the full RAM on newer models.

Has the mishandling of the DMA been fixed? I'm still back
at head -r363590 and it was not fixed as of then. I've
had to use the 3072 MiB limit in the uefi/ACPI selections
in order to have a reliable environment.

> sysutils/rpi-firmware could consolidate config_rpi4.txt and
> config_rpi3.txt into one using conditional directives to use the
> armstub on the RPi4.



===
Mark Millard
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