Re: Help booting NetBSD 9.0 on RPI2-1.2

[Rin Okuyama <rokuyama.rk%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi,

On 2020/02/23 4:52, Caleb Malchik wrote:
> I'm having trouble booting NetBSD on my RPI2-1.2.  I've done the
> following according to this page [0]:
>
>   - download arm64.img.gz [1]
>   - gunzip arm64.img.gz
>   - dd if=arm64.img of=/dev/sde (sde is my uSD card on linux)
>   - put it in the RPI and power up
>
> It is then that I see a multicolored screen which lasts at least a few
> minutes before I give up.  I've also tried the same process with
> armv7, with the same result.  Mlelstv on IRC suggested that I copy
> bcm2836-rpi-2-b.dtb to bcm2837-rpi-2-b.dtb on the armv7 image, but I
> still get the same result.
>
> Is there anything else I should try at this point?
>
> Best,
> Caleb
>
> [0] https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/
> [1] http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-9.0/evbarm-aarch64/binary/gzimg/arm64.img.gz

I'm using bcm2836-rpi-2-b.dtb, compiled from bcm2836-rpi-2-b.dts with

#include "bcm2836.dtsi"

is replaced with

#include "bcm2837.dtsi"

With this change, GENERIC64 kernel is fully functional on my RPI2-1.2.

Thanks,
rin