Re: Raspberry PI information

Ramiro Aceves <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> Later under "RPI4 xhci" is mentioned
>>   One workaround is to switch to UEFI, but that leads to a 3GB
>>   memory limit and needing a monitor.
>> Is this still accurate?  Is it impossible to use a serial console
>> when booting using the UEFI boot image?  And is the 3GB memory
>> limit still a thing?  Makes it kind of pointless to try to run on
>> an 8GB RPI5, no?
> 
> The 3GB issue is a hardware flaw of the RPI4. Setting the UEFI
> limit was an early crude workaround. It shouldn't be required
> anymore.
> 


I confirm my RPi4 runs perfectly with 8 GB RAM with UEFI v1.38 (3GB 
limit disabled). Avoid v1.39, at least it did not work for me.

Regards.
Ramiro.
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