Re: NetBSD on Raspberry Pi 3

[For some reason I am not getting any email from port-arm@ on my GMail address. Just noticed in the archive that there were more replies in this thread.]

> From: mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)

>>Is there a minimal set of patches that I should apply on top of 7.0.2 to

>>have Pi 3 running?

>Just the one. But still no support for wifi+bluetooth.

I backported that one, but it wouldn't boot on my RPI3. Can anybody confirm or send me their patch for 7.0.2?

>From: Jun Ebihara <jun%soum.co.jp@localhost>

> - I've got report not to boot with Sandisk/SONY/Toshiba microSD.

How does it not boot? I don't have these brands but I get the rainbow screen which means it read the card for the rom but the kernel is not good.

> - need firmware update for RPI2 Ver1.2

Is this the one? https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/archive/a192a05bc8ca597249e5a36875ce382c572ddc97.tar.gz

--emi

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Emilian Bold <emilian.bold%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

All I hoped for was a stable release or a stable release that I have to patch a little.

I see Jun Ebihara's emails mention NetBSD-current but I will try later a nightly build for netbsd-7 and see if it works.

Just realised Jun Ebihara is the person posting the NetBSD builds on https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=86

--emi

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
Emilian Bold <emilian.bold%gmail.com@localhost> writes:

> Just noticed I used a nightly build from the netbsd-7-0/ branch and
> not HEAD.
>
> I will test tomorrow a current- build on my PI 3 and I expect it to
> work.
>
> Still, I would prefer a stable 7.X release with Pi 3 support.

I don't know anything useful about the RPI3 specifically, but
Jun Ebihara regularly posts messages with RPI images, and I had the
impression RPI3 worked:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2016/11/23/msg003970.html

Also, you mentioned "7.0.2". The plan for 7.0.x is to have only
security fixes and really serious bugs fixed relative to 7.0. There is
also a branch "netbsd-7" that is where 7.0 was cut from, and it's likely
there will be a 7.1 cut from it someday. Besides security fixes,
well-tested improvements also get added. I generally find branches like
netbsd-7 to be the best blend of stability and up-to-dateness, and have
been running them on production (but not mass market customer-facing)
machines without issues. I don't have any reason to think RPI3 support
is or isn't in netbsd-7, but it seems highly likely that netbsd-7-0 is
overly conservative for your needs.