Re: Raspberry Pi 500 Keyboard with 8 GB dram, trying to boot FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT BETA1 Image

On Oct 15, 2025, at 02:51, Fred Finster <[email protected]> wrote:

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> I have followed the wiki entry, but not quite there to boot up FreeBSD.  https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Raspberry%20Pi%205 Raspberry Pi 5 Boot stuff  
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> https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Raspberry%20Pi%205     FreeBSD Raspberry Pi 5  wiki entry

I have one comment area, an incompleteness in what

https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Raspberry%20Pi%205

lists: there are 2 distinct EDK2 UEFI drafts for RPi5's 
based on differing RPi5 hardware vintages (before D0 and
on/after D0):


Before D0 based models:
https://github.com/worproject/rpi5-uefi   (listed on the wiki)

and (newer):

D0 and later based models:
https://github.com/NumberOneGit/rpi5-uefi (not listed on the wiki)


For reference for the new one:

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Thanks to Mario Bălănică for the work enabling UEFI support
on the Raspberry Pi 5. This project aims to provide UEFI
access for users with D0 models—including the 16 GB, 2 GB,
and other recently manufactured variants—as well as all
Compute Modules.

This fork remaps pinctrl for the D0 revision of the BCM2712,
ensuring newer Pi 5 boards boot correctly with UEFI. There
is currently a known framebuffer issue affecting the UEFI
menu and some operating systems on these models. I’ve
reported this issue to the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and they
have confirmed it will be addressed in their next major
EEPROM update.

UPDATE: Upgrade your system in Raspberry Pi OS or manually
to the 6/9/25 EEPROM to avoid framebuffer issues.
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