Re: Libre Computer Issues with NetBSD 10

Martin Husemann <[email protected]> Wed, 16 Jul 2025 17:53:54 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 11:46:01AM -0400, Derrick Granowski wrote:
> I've been trying to figure out what happened between NetBSD 9 and NetBSD 10.
> I think I found it, the dmesg diff between 9 and 10 shows that NetBSD 10
> boots but does not initialize any "xhci0 at simplebus1".
> This explains why an external docking station and whatever USB devices I
> plug in do not work.
> 
> [image: image.png]
> 
> Interestingly, when I built a NetBSD 10 kernel on my NetBSD 9 system that
> does run on the Libre le potato, booting the 10 kernel seemingly picks up
> the xhci device and USB devices work while running a generic 10 kernel.

The difference is probably in the DTB file used. Can you interrupt the
boot process and print the u-boot environment and find out which file
is used?

Martin