Re: NetBSD on Raspberry PI5

[Harold Gutch <logix%foobar.franken.de@localhost>]

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 08:41:25AM +0200, Harold Gutch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 01:44:56AM +0000, John Klos wrote:
> > >For those who weren't aware
> > >https://github.com/worproject/rpi5-uefi/releases/tag/v0.3
> > >
> > >allows NetBSD to boot on the RaspberryPi 5
> > >https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=7836
> > 
> > This is great!
> > 
> > I have a Raspberry Pi 5, but it won't boot with rpi5-uefi (much less 
> > NetBSD). I wonder if it's due to the fact that the Pi I have has firmware 
> > version 1722349546 (30-July-2024). Is anyone else running rpi5-uefi? If 
> > so, do you know what Pi firmware your board is running?
> 
> "Running" is a strong word - the uSD slot does not work when booting
> NetBSD via rpi5-uefi, all I did was (successfully) boot a kernel in
> this way and observed dmesg output.  To actually *do* something you
> need userland on something connected via USB.
> 
> This is with arm64mbr.img.gz from around 3 weeks ago and
> RPi5_UEFI_Release_v0.3.zip unpacked onto the FAT partition and a rpi5
> UART cable.

I realized I only somewhat implicitly stated the firmware version.
This is what came on with that image, i.e., the files in
src/external/broadcom/rpi-firmware/dist .

  Author: skrll <skrll%NetBSD.org@localhost>
  Date:   Wed Dec 27 14:24:34 2023 +0000

      Update RaspberryPI firmware

      Update the RaspberryPI firmware to the version from

      https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-firmware
                  

        commit fdb9eafae4b83e553593937eae8e77b0193903c3
        Author: Dom Cobley <popcornmix%gmail.com@localhost>
        Date:   Tue Oct 17 15:59:45 2023 +0100


cheers,
  Harold