Re: RPI 4/5 u-boot new port, is there any interest?

Yes, Mark, 
you've been around for so long ;-), you know how things work here...
The discussion is as old as the Pi itself...
No agreement on which bootloader, patches, or upstreams to use,
so I can stop working on it for now.
Maybe not the worst news for me personally :-), hehe

See you soon, stay healthy
and
Best regards...
K.

> Am 04.06.2025 um 18:59 schrieb Mark Millard <[email protected]>:
> 
> On Jun 4, 2025, at 09:23, Klaus Küchemann <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Mark M. & Warner,
>> 
>> we can boot the Pi5 with a hacked u-boot version….
>> Mark received a binary from me a while ago…
> 
> And I've no modern context to test such things with.
> 
>> The question is:
>> Does FreeBSD , represented by you, Warner, :-)
>> Wanz, that we do the same as those hackers from some linux-derivates :
>> „Attack" the u-boot bootloader for our purposes and build a new port of it ?
>> If we want we can do that by integrating/combining known working patches…
>> 
>> But without Warner&Colleagues to say what`s the way to go I don't do anything here anymore ;-)
> 
> My guess here is that if someone else produces something
> that is an upstream that just happens to be usable for
> some range of RPi5 FreeBSD use, that is what will be used
> by those willing to deal with such.
> 
> As stands, the only potential/existing upstream for the
> RPi5 D0 parts for FreeBSD seems to be the EDK2 style:
> 
> https://github.com/NumberOneGit/rpi5-uefi/
> 
> that is a variant of the support for the original
> RPi5's.
> 
> So: Strictly (implicit!) volunteer based, largely without
> need of kernel development for the limited range of what
> it would support. (Same as for the older RPi5's via
> https://github.com/worproject/rpi5-uefi/ .)
> 
>> Once again for a better understanding: nearly everything is completely patched for Pi4&5 in u-boot, just not officially.. 
>> Well, of course that doesn`t mean that RP1-chip is patched in fbsd-sources….that`s another thing..
>> 
>> O.K., thanks for reading 
>> And all have nice day
>> 
>> Best Regards
>> 
>> K.
>> 
>>> Am 04.06.2025 um 17:54 schrieb Warner Losh <[email protected]>:
>> 
>>> I don't know what the state of play is with the uboot
>>> vs edk2 ports to the rpi5.
> 
> 
> ===
> Mark Millard
> marklmi at yahoo.com