On Mon Oct 5, 2026 at 6:21 PM BST, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2026-10-04, hmjsp <[email protected]> wrote: >> a. is there still a performance difference between uboot and pftf? > > no idea, you can try yourself if you like fair, might be interesting to experiment >> c. why does it mention installing the bootloader to SD, and running the >> installer from USB? can I not have a pure USB install? > > it's convenient to be able to just swap SD to try different bootloader > versions without messing with the main install, and also "rpi + sd card > with suitable bootloader" can be treated as a unit similarly to "a > system which comes with uefi anyway". however yes you can have a pure > USB install. that's also a good point, any crappy no name small SD card will do since you only need a few MB for storage, so it's a non issue. > > again the current install docs have changed in this area. > > https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/arm64/INSTALL.arm64 > >> d. lastly, and kind of off topic, but how can I check if overclocking in >> config.txt has actually worked from within OpenBSD? > > compare 'md5 -ttt' times or something? can someone chip in with their times on a Pi 4 just so that me and others can be aware of expected performance? > ideally have a monitor connected at least while testing, then you can > look for the thermometer icon on-screen (coming from the firmware) that > indicates thermal throttle. doubt it will happen regardless since I have a large heatsink/fan combo.
thanks for the input!
