Finally Booted!

I finally got Crochet-FreeBSD to build an image that can boot the Raspberry Pi using the newest version of UBoot. Specifically U-Boot-2015.01.tar.gz

There are three define statements that need to get added to the configuration file. There are also three files that need patches.

The define statements get added to u-boot/include/configs/rpi.h. They are #define CONFIG_API, #define CONFIG_CMD_ELF, and #define CONFIG_SYS_MMC_MAX_DEVICE 1.

The first patch includes libc in the make process. To do this change line 668 in u-boot/Makefile from PLATFORM_LIBS += $(PLATFORM_LIBGCC) to PLATFORM_LIBS += $(PLATFORM_LIBGCC) -lc.

The second patch is to change line 40 in u-boot/examples/api/Makefile from cmd_link_demo = $(LD) --gc-sections -Ttext $(LOAD_ADDR) -o $@ $(filter-out $(PHONY), $^) $(PLATFORM_LIBS) to cmd_link_demo = $(LD) --gc-sections -static -Ttext $(LOAD_ADDR) -o $@ $(filter-out $(PHONY), $^) $(PLATFORM_LIBS).

These two patches and the define statements are described in Crochet's NewBoardExample's README.

The last patch is to disable high speed sdhci support. To do this change line 494 in u-boot/drivers/mmc/sdhci.c from host->cfg.host_caps = MMC_MODE_HS | MMC_MODE_HS_52MHz | MMC_MODE_4BIT; to host->cfg.host_caps = MMC_MODE_4BIT;.

This last patch is bundled with Crochet, but is Raspberry Pi specific.

In addition to these changes, there are changes to Crochet itself.

Line 144 in crochet-freebsd/lib/uboot.sh needs to change from if gmake SED=gsed HOSTCC=cc CROSS_COMPILE=${FREEBSD_XDEV_PREFIX} $2 > $1/_.uboot.configure.log 2>&1; then to if gmake CC="clang -target arm-freebsd-eabi --sysroot /usr/armv6-freebsd -no-integrated-as -mllvm -arm-use-movt=0" $2 > $1/_.uboot.configure.log 2>&1; then.

In that same file line 168 changes from if gmake SED=gsed HOSTCC=cc CROSS_COMPILE=${FREEBSD_XDEV_PREFIX} > $1/_.uboot.build.log 2>&1; then to if gmake CC="clang -target arm-freebsd-eabi --sysroot /usr/armv6-freebsd -no-integrated-as -mllvm -arm-use-movt=0" -j8 > $1/_.uboot.build.log 2>&1; then.

These changes are required by UBoot when building with clang. There is a bit of configuring to be done described in u-boot/docs/README.clang.