> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2019 14:32:40 +0000
> From: Joseph Mayer <joseph.ma...@protonmail.com>
> 
> Hi Mark and Markus,
> 
> On Saturday, 22 June 2019 04:24, Mark Kettenis <mark.kette...@xs4all.nl> 
> wrote:
> > I've finally managed to build a properly working (and fully open
> > source) firmware for the ROCKPro64. The firmware consists of two
> > files, which can be downloaded from:
> 
> Wait the default one is a proprietary closed-source fork of uboot?

The "ayufan" builds that most people seem to use include binary blobs
for the primary bootloader (that initializes DRAM) and ATF.  U-Boot
itself is open-source but based on a vendor fork of U-Boot.

> On Sunday, 30 June 2019 20:13, Markus Hennecke 
> <markus-henne...@markus-hennecke.de> wrote:
> ..
> > Thanks, I was unable to boot bsd.rd, but setting up a system on a SD card
> > and copying the dtb to the efi partition worked out and gave me a booting
> > system. Well, most of the time it is booting. Sometimes the boot ends in
> > input/output errors. Is there any smart way to put the system on NVMe
> > while u-boot can't boot from it yet without having the root partition on
> > SD card?
> >
> > Just for the record, the following patch for ports sysutils/dtb will not
> > change the console speed during the boot process and in addition will
> > enable the pcie port:
> 
> Wait enabling PCIe in the firmware has what effect, to enable it at all
> (for use post-boot) or to make NVMe bootable?

It makes rkpci(4) attach when OpenBSD boots, but anything in the PCIe
slot won't be available in the bootloader.

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