On Thu, 5 Jan 2017, Brad Spencer wrote:
You will need to use something -currentish. I mostly run a 7.99.42 kernel with some local mods.
Thanks for the tip.
I have 3 RPI3b v1.2 boards. Two of them will not boot NetBSD 9 out of 10 times. They will hang between these two lines:
That sounds like a bummer. I'll watch for the same issue.
Raspbian works fine on those boards [at least it does on one of them, I don't remember if I tried both] and 1 time in 10 NetBSD will get past that point and run fine. The third RPI3 board appears to boot NetBSD just fine, as does my RPI2. I hope you have one that works out for you.
Weird. I wonder if it's firmware related... There are some warnings about upgrading firmware on the RPi Wiki page.
The two RPI3s that hang were purchased at different times from different places, but as far as I can tell are all the same board.
Yeah, that definitely seems like it'd be firmware related. It's the same SoC and other bits.
Right now the RPI3 runs like a RPI2, more or less, in terms of devices.
I've got an RPi v2 on the way, also. If I have to fight the v3 too much I'll just downgrade. The downside is the RPi is supposed to be about 2x the speed of the RPi2. Of course, I'm not building a compute cluster with them in any case (yet! hehe).
-Swift