Re: RPI2 Model B not booting with 13.2 release?

On May 30, 2023, at 09:10, Luís Henriques <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm probably doing something wrong, but I've run out of ideas.
> 
> This is my first attempt to install FreeBSD on my old RPI2.

Which type of RPi2B? (There was a technically confusing
marking-naming used for a significant technical change.)

RPi2B v1.1: a cortex-A7  implementation of armv7, no aarch64 support
RPi2B v1.2: a cortex-a53 implementation of aarch64, plus aarch32/armv7

You did not supply enough information for me to tell
which.

>  So, after
> dd'ing the 13.2 (release) SD image

v1.1 would need:

FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-arm-armv7-GENERICSD.img.xz

instead of FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI.img.xz

v1.2 would need :

FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI.img.xz

instead of: FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-arm-armv7-GENERICSD.img.xz

You did not supply enough information for me to tell
which *.img* file you downloaded and tried to use.

FYI:

FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-arm-armv7-GENERICSD.img.xz has just
the one .dtb file: bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb (the one for the
v1.1 RPi2B). (If it also had bcm2710-rpi-2-b.dtb, then
both variants would boot. Similarly for other
bcm2710-rpi-*.dtb files enabling some other RPi* variants
to boot as armv7 instead of aarch64.)

By conttrast, adding  bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb to
FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI.img.xz would
not make it work for a RPi2B v1.1 .

> and connecting the serial USB, I got no
> output at all.  From the HDMI interface, I see a colourful screen, but
> nothing else.  The same happens with 13.1.  And only 12.4 seems to boot
> this device:
> 
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD generic 12.4-STABLE FreeBSD 12.4-STABLE r373082 GENERIC  arm
> 
> Is this model not supposed to boot anymore and I just couldn't find any
> information about it?  Or am I doing something wrong?


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Mark Millard
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