Re: Need testers for ALPHA RPi-5 fan control, GE NIC, WiFi drivers for FreeBSD-CURRENT

There is a firmware blob that needs to be loaded with the driver, but I thought I embedded that into the code so that it installs with make install.

Can you create a github issue for this please? I just realized I have a gap in my testing workflow: no make deinstall. This part was a grind and the blob in my test target might be left over from a sacrificed branch.

That file is the firmware image for the bcm43455 embedded ARM3. The NIC has its own little 32bit microcontroller with its own firmware.

-------- Original Message --------
On Tuesday, 06/02/26 at 08:14 Ronald Klop <[email protected]> wrote:

> Van: Jeremy McMillan <[email protected]>
> Datum: zaterdag, 30 mei 2026 02:42
> Aan: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Onderwerp: Need testers for ALPHA RPi-5 fan control, GE NIC, WiFi drivers for FreeBSD-CURRENT
>
>> If anyone has a Raspberry Pi 5 that's not dedicated to anything important, I'd appreciate some help testing this:
>>
>> https://github.com/aphor/FreeBSD15-RPi5-modules
>>
>> The README.md is up to date, but other docs in there might be stale.
>>
>> IDK if I should try to implement Bluetooth yet. I haven't tried using FreeBSD bluetooth with working known-good drivers on supported hardware, but when this is relatively complete I'm planning to do some bug fixing and performance improvements where necessary in a BETA phase, then a rewrite from scratch for maintainability that can be submitted to FreeBSD-CURRENT. I know the repo says FreeBSD15, but I'm currently building against FreeBSD-16-CURRENT. I've had feedback that the fan control works fine on FreeBSD-15.
>>
>> I also don't know what I should do about GPIO testing. I'd appreciate any pointers if other people work with RPi hardware and have any pointers for testing GPIO stuff. I think there's a few pins that can do DAC and ADC and others that can do PWM (like the ones used for the fan header) when programmed to different modes. I have an oscilloscope, but I'd like to automate testing as much as possible because my spare time is precious.
>>
>> It seems like RPi-5 will be around for a while under the current market conditions for the semiconductor business, and it is my hope that FreeBSD can deserve and get more attention and support from Broadcom and Raspberry Pi. Also, I have my own projects :)
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your attention!
>
> Hi,
>
> I just build and installed the modules.
>
> Do you have some hardcoded paths in the code?
>
> Make install ends with:
> Installing CYW43455 firmware files to /boot/firmware/cyw43455/...
> WARNING: brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin not found in /home/jeremy/ or ./
> WARNING: brcmfmac43455-sdio.txt not found in /home/jeremy/ or ./
> WARNING: brcmfmac43455-sdio.clm_blob not found in /home/jeremy/ or ./
>
> I will try testing some stuff now.
>
> Regards,
> Ronald.