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Date:      Sat, 1 Oct 2016 22:44:40 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Felix Maurer <lists@felix-maurer.de>
Cc:        "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on Pine64: ubldr for arm64
Message-ID:  <CANCZdfp7FQJozYSvDNpZu42iT6hjGRay7ntBb%2B2JzD3YSL2TYA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <57F0440A.4060709@felix-maurer.de>
References:  <57F0440A.4060709@felix-maurer.de>

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On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Felix Maurer <lists@felix-maurer.de> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I am currently trying to build a FreeBSD image with Crochet to boot on
> the Pine64.
>
> Thanks to the sysutils/u-boot-pine64 port I already got a working SPL
> that starts U-Boot. The normal way to continue booting a image built by
> Crochet is to start ubldr. But at the moment there is no arm64 version
> of ubldr in the tree.
> The only thing I found about this is this diff:
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5512 . It has been lying around there since
> March and the last comments state that the changes are unnecessary now
> for the RPI3 because a way has been found to boot on a RPI3 without
> U-Boot. Now I have two questions:
>
> 1. Is there a chance for the diff to make it into the tree? Although it
> is no longer needed for the RPI3 it may be needed by other boards.
> 2. As an alternative: What is this mysterious way to boot without U-Boot
> and may this be possible for other boards like the Pine64?

Both pine and rpi-3 use uboot to boot, but they use it to boot the
UEFI implementation. There's a freebsd port for u-boot on pine64.
There's also a github project to add support for pine64 to crochet,
but I don't have the pointer...

Warner


> Regards,
> Felix
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