Re: Nanobsd for RPI4

> On 16 Jan 2024, at 10:46, Guido Falsi <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 16/01/24 10:30, Andrew Hankinson wrote:
>>> On 16 Jan 2024, at 10:03, Guido Falsi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 16/01/24 09:52, Andrew Hankinson wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I saw a recent posting to this list about nanobsd for RPI3:
>>>> Re: Nanobsd builds for rpi3 out of embedded blow up during build <https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arm/2024-January/003509html>
>>>> lists.freebsd.org <https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arm/2024-January/003509.html>
>>>> favicon.ico <https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arm/2024-January/003509.html>
>>>> <https://lists.freebsdorg/archives/freebsd-arm/2024-January/003509.html>
>>>> I just wanted to chime in to say I am seeing the exact same thing for a RPI4 build with both 14.0 release and 15.0 current. I asked about it on the forums, but there didn’t seem to be any solution.
>>>> Has anyone here managed to get a nanobsd build working?
>>> 
>>> I am using nanobsd with RPi3. Never tried RPi4. I did some customization to the nanobsd scripts and configuration to get it working though.
>>> 
>>> Last time I rebuilt my image was in mid december. I'm going to build a new image in the next pair of weeks.
>>> 
>>> Is the problem limited to the boot code?
>> I haven't been able to get past the boot code bit, but up until this point it works OK. I've simply copied the RPI3.cfg file and changed a few variables.
>> My build stops with the following logs:
>> # cat /usr/embedded/rpi4/_.cust.dos_boot_part
>> + dos_boot_part
>> + local 'd=/usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-rpi4'
>> + local 'f=/usr/embedded/rpi4/_.fat'
>> + rm -rf /usr/embedded/rpi4/_.fat
>> + mkdir /usr/embedded/rpi4/_.fat
>> + chdir /usr/embedded/rpi4/_.fat
>> + cp /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-rpi4/README /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-rpi4/metadata /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-rpi4/u-boot.bin .
>> + touch uEnv.txt
>> + cp '/usr/embedded/rpi4/_.w/boot/dtb/*.dtb' .
>> cp: /usr/embedded/rpi4/_.w/boot/dtb/*.dtb: No such file or directory
>> This seems to be a problem with the dos_boot_part() function in /usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd/embedded/common.
>> Your code seems to bypass this and uses the rpi-firmware package dtbo files.
> 
> I was seeing problems simlar to what you are describing, so I wrote my own function.
> 
>> So I guess my questions are:
>> 1. What changed that the .dtb files are no longer created in the regular build?
>> 2. Should the dos_boot_part() function be changed to take the files from the rpi-firmware pkg instead?
>> Not being familiar with the nanobsd building process, I'm not really sure what is the best way to go.
> 
> I wrote this code some time ago and I don't remember the details, anyway my code does take the files from the pkg.
> 
> I took idea from the release scripts for aarch64 from:
> 
> src/release/release.sh
> src/release/arm64/aarch64.conf
> src/release/tools/arm.subr
> 
> which have more current code.

Would you be willing to share your full nanobsd config file? Or is that the only custom part you needed to get it working?

> 
> -- 
> Guido Falsi <[email protected]>
>