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Date:      Sat, 6 Mar 2021 11:54:56 +0100
From:      Gordon Bergling <gbe@freebsd.org>
To:        Mark Murray <markm@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Robert Crowston <crowston@protonmail.com>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: RPi4 Status and sysutils/rpi-firmware (and rng)
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On Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 10:52:45AM +0000, Mark Murray wrote:
> Hi
> 
> As soon as I get my RPI4 8GB running reliably - hopefully really soon now - I can commit this. I have a license to do so as I am part of csprng@ :-)
> 
> M

I have also tested it on -CURRENT for a while and haven't seen any problems
on a RPi4B 4GB model.

--Gordon

> > On 6 Mar 2021, at 10:23, Robert Crowston via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > That patch was updated by James Mintram. It was accepted, but has not yet been committed.
> > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22493
> > — RHC.
> > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> > On Saturday, 6 March 2021 08:16, Alex Samorukov <samm@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> On 06.03.2021 7:46, Gordon Bergling wrote:
> >>> bugs.
> >>> The 4GB model seems to not have such many firmware bugs as the 8GB model,
> >>> I never updated the firmware or the u-boot image, but I'll try the patches
> >>> to incorporate this into my regular testing.
> >>> Thanks for your work on that platform!
> >> 
> >> +1 from me.
> >> 
> >> Using 2 RPi boards (RPI4/4Gb and old RPI1/512Mb) and both working very
> >> good and stable with FreeBSD. I think in fact i never had any OS crash
> >> in a last 6+ months or so.
> >> 
> >> Now thinking to get 8Gb model, mostly for testing and as a build host.
> >> One of the things i found that RPi4 does not have rng driver. On attempt
> >> to port one from OpenBSD i found in this maillist patches [1], but it
> >> seems they never got any review/been merged. What is the best way to got
> >> it in the upstream?
> >> 
> >> [1]
> >> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/compare/master...RobCrowston:pi4-hwrng



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