It does prevent FreeBSD to boot correctly. With that patch and #define KERNEL_LOAD_ADDR 0x00200000 in arm/boot/boot.c, official FreeBSD RPI2 images boot like a charm :-)
BTW, would be great to be able to set the load addr on the command line, wouldn’t it? > Le 21 avr. 2016 à 14:45, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> a écrit : > > On 21 April 2016 at 11:41, Sylvain Garrigues > <sylv...@sylvaingarrigues.com> wrote: >> As the framebuffer settings are copied into the result message before >> it is reconfigured, inconsistent behavior can happen when, for instance, >> you set with a sinle message the width, height, and depth, and ask at >> the same time to allocate the buffer and get the pitch and the size. >> >> In this case, the reported pitch and size would be incorrect as they >> were computed with the initial values of width, height and depth, not >> the ones the client requested. > > Thanks for this patch. I think at this point in the 2.6 release cycle > we should leave this for the 2.7 release, given that it doesn't affect > the booting of the older Linux and Windows versions that work on the raspi2 > board. > > I'll let Andrew review the patch... > > -- PMM
