Re: rpi4 updated eeprom

tech-lists <[email protected]> Thu, 24 Sep 2020 19:48:34 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 10:55:25AM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:

>I do not know if the following will be of help or not.
>I'm not sure of the details of what you have set up.
>But "it says that I need to upgrade the software" suggests
>the following to me. (Booting off the microsd card does
>not require as recent of software as I understand.)
>
>Note: I have the USB3 SSD's msdosfs mounted on /usb_efi for
>the below.
>
># ls -ldTt /usb_efi/*
>drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     8192 Sep  7 22:48:50 2020 /usb_efi/OVERLAYS
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    47516 Sep  1 14:04:10 2020 /usb_efi/bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2283936 Sep  1 14:04:08 2020 /usb_efi/start4.elf
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     5422 Sep  1 14:04:04 2020 /usb_efi/fixup4.dat
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     5252 Sep  1 13:59:48 2020 /usb_efi/Readme.md
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      206 Sep  1 13:59:48 2020 /usb_efi/config.txt.uefi_orig
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2031616 Sep  1 07:08:54 2020 /usb_efi/RPI_EFI.fd
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      236 Jul 15 02:21:48 2020 /usb_efi/config.txt
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    18693 Nov 22 09:06:44 2019 /usb_efi/COPYING.linux
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     1594 Nov 22 09:06:44 2019 /usb_efi/LICENCE.broadcom
>drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     8192 Sep 27 21:05:00 2018 /usb_efi/EFI
>
>Note the "Sep 1" dates. What are the dates for yours (presuming that you
>have handled things to preserve the original dates instead of showing
>when you copied things)?

some appear to be different to yours. ignore those with prefix old-
:

/mnt# ls -ldTt *
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2224160 Sep 24 18:53:12 2020 start4.elf
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     5418 Sep 24 18:52:56 2020 fixup4.dat
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      179 Sep 24 14:48:02 2020 config.txt
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      176 Sep  7 14:01:24 2020 orig.config_rpi4.txt
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      147 Sep  7 14:01:12 2020 orig.config.txt
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      176 Sep  5 00:09:06 2020 config_rpi4.txt
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2277376 Sep  4 21:08:16 2020 old-start4.elf
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     5407 Sep  4 21:08:06 2020 old-fixup4.dat
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   517160 Sep  4 21:07:58 2020 u-boot.bin
drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     4096 Aug 27 10:57:24 2020 overlays
drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     4096 Aug 27 10:57:14 2020 EFI
drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     4096 Aug 27 10:57:14 2020 dtb
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     5888 Aug 27 05:20:16 2020 armstub8-gic.bin
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     5888 Aug 27 05:20:16 2020 armstub8.bin
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      124 Aug 27 05:02:24 2020 README
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     1594 Nov 22 16:06:44 2019 LICENCE.broadcom
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    25265 Nov 22 16:06:44 2019 bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    27054 Nov 22 16:06:44 2019
bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    26435 Nov 22 16:06:44 2019 bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    40659 Nov 22 16:06:44 2019 bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    52304 Nov 22 16:06:44 2019 bootcode.bin
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     6744 Nov 22 16:06:44 2019 fixup.dat
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     3089 Nov 22 16:06:44 2019 fixup4cd.dat
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     9181 Nov 22 16:06:44 2019 fixup4db.dat
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     9183 Nov 22 16:06:44 2019 fixup4x.dat
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     2655 Nov 22 16:06:44 2019 fixup_cd.dat
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     9816 Nov 22 16:06:44 2019 fixup_db.dat
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     9816 Nov 22 16:06:44 2019 fixup_x.dat
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2880356 Nov 22 16:06:44 2019 start.elf
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   775872 Nov 22 16:06:44 2019 start4cd.elf
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  4582664 Nov 22 16:06:44 2019 start4db.elf
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3536680 Nov 22 16:06:44 2019 start4x.elf
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   688068 Nov 22 16:06:44 2019 start_cd.elf
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  4857160 Nov 22 16:06:44 2019 start_db.elf
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3794600 Nov 22 16:06:44 2019 start_x.elf

bear in mind I'm booting u-boot with sdcard. I do have a hd attached but it's
not being booted from.

>https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/blob/master/firmware/release-notes.md
>reports:
>
>QUOTE
>USB MSD boot also requires the firmware from Raspberry Pi OS 2020-08-20 or newer.
>https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bcm2711_bootloader_config.md
>
>2020-09-14 Promote the 2020-09-03 release to be the default EEPROM images.
>
>	• Promote the 2020-09-03 bootloader EEPROM and VLI 0138A1 as the default release (critical folder).
>END QUOTE
>
>The 2020-08-20 date was also present during the end of the BETA/stable
>sequence as well.
>
>(UEFI/ACPI may well require something not too old as well, although
>it might tolerate older and MSD does.)
>
>FreeBSD and its port sysutils/rpi-firmware are not yet up to
>date for such things so to use the UEFI/ACPI and USB MSD together
>you need to manage your own materials. I do not remember if:
>
>https://github.com/pftf/RPi4/releases/download/v1.20/RPi4_UEFI_Firmware_v1.20.zip
>
>supplies 2020-Aug-20 or later files or not. I've updated mine separately
>at times and so I might have more recent materials than in the .zip file.
>
>I expect that "it says that I need to upgrade the software" means
>that you need to do something to update the relevant files on the
>msdos file system on the USB SSD that you are trying to boot from.

I grabbed that zipfile and the files appear to be dated 1st September.

In order to get => 2GHz speeds from the pi4, is UFEI a requirement?
-- 
J.
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