Re: JMicron jms561 umass on arm64?

bob prohaska <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 09:23:55AM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:
> On 2021-Apr-8, at 08:09, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:
> 
> > I forgot to mention that before initially booting FreeBSD on
> > my Pi4B I booted it with RasPiOS and ran sudo apt update/upgrade.
> > That likely fixed the firmware on the Pi without intelligent 
> > intervention.
> 
> How would booting RasPiOS via RasPiOS media and running
> apt update/upgrade automatically update the firmware that
> is on the FreeBSD media, files like start4.elf on the
> msdos file system on FreeBSD boot media?
> 
> I was not writing of things like the eepprom update that
> enables USB booting on older RPi*'s that did not support
> such initially. I explicitly mentioned start4.elf and
> "firmware-boot-stage media".
> 
> Unless there were more steps than described, I doubt the
> activity updated what I was refering to.
>
 
Perhaps I'm confusing firmware with eeprom. ISTR that I did
have to copy a selection of new files into /boot/msdos, but
I don't think that booted until running RasPiOS and updating
it, using apt upgrade. Unfortunately I wasn't taking notes....

Apologies for any misdirection caused,

bob prohaska
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