Re: FYI: FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm-armv7-GENERICSD-20220930-42dc8696df5-258315.img is broken for RPi2 v1.1 (so: armv7)

On Mon, Oct 10, 2022, 10:00 PM Mark Millard <[email protected]> wrote:

> [Summary: it looks to be FreeBSD main's EFI loader that is
> at issue for armv7 RPi2B v1.1 booting not working.]
>
> On 2022-Oct-10, at 20:04, Mark Millard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I put:
> >
> > FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm-armv7-GENERICSD-20220930-42dc8696df5-258315.img
> >
> > on a microsd card via dd and tried to boot a RPi2 v1.1. it
> > hung up after:
> >
> > Using DTB provided by EFI at 0x7ef6000.
> > Kernel entry at 0x36a00200...
> > Kernel args: (null)
> >
> > (A "-" might show in the next line.)
> >
> > So I tried:
> >
> > FreeBSD-13.1-STABLE-arm-armv7-GENERICSD-20221007-d497b97e902-252653.img
> >
> > on the microsd card instead. It worked just fine. (Thus the
> > RPi2B v1.1 is not broken.)
> >
> > I did this experiment because recent testing for other
> > reasons of somewhat older main vintages that I'd built
> > also showed such failures. This test shows official
> > builds also have the problem.
> >
> > I've no clue how long this issue has been around. It
> > been a very long time since the RPi2B v1.1 had been
> > powered on.
> >
> >
> > Note: The arm-armv7-GENERICSD images include the RPi2B
> > v1.1 related RPi* firmware and u-boot, in addition to
> > an installed FreeBSD EFI loader and a kernel and a
> > world. Historically it was supposed to just work for
> > RPi2B v1.1's.
>
> I mounted the main [so: 14] media to /mnt and
> copied /mnt/EFI/BOOT/bootarm.efi to
> /boot/msdos/EFI/BOOT/bootarm.efi .
>
> The result makes the 13.1-STABLE media fail in
> the same sort of manor as 14-CURRENT did.
>
> So I tried an experiment going in the other
> direction: copying 13.1-STABLE's
> EFI/BOOT/bootarm.efi into a main [so: 14]
> context that had been failing to boot.
> It then boots fine.
>
> main's armv7 EFI/BOOT/bootarm.efi is broken, at
> least for RPi2B v1.1 systems.
>

Can you write a brief summary so I can recreate?

And are you sure it's a booting issue and not a console issue?

I can't make heads or tails of this whole thread. I need something simple,
that's like 5 steps with version numbers.

Warner


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