Re: FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20260525-490c53e9353f-286096.img won't boot rpi5

On 6/1/26 07:28, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jun 2026 at 05:34, void <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20260525-490c53e9353f-286096.img won't boot on the rpi5.
>> Is this expected?
>>
>> Here are the errors from the debug probe. The boot process gets to the state indicated
>> at "USB MSD stopped. Timeout: 25 seconds" and repeats the sequence after that over and over.
> 
> Hi! When did it last work?

Never for any FreeBSD distributed *.img , as far as I know.

There has never been enough pre-supplied to even have the RPi5 EEPROM's
firmware start a U-Boot or such: it just stays in the RPi5 firmware.

The complete lack of *.dtb and/or *.dtbo's for the BCM2712 SOCs (pre-D0
and D0) is an example. (Those are RPi5 files from the RPI folks that are
not supplied in FreeBSD images as stands. The RPi5 firmware requires
them.) No U-Boot is supplied either.

FreeBSD's images have never supplied a draft/partial EDK2 or the like
instead.

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> -adrian
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