This is my partition layout on Raspberry Pi 4 (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS image)
root@jk4:/home/ubuntu# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 3.7T 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 3.7T 0 part
mmcblk0 179:0 0 29.1G 0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 256M 0 part /boot/firmware
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 28.9G 0 part /
I wonder what /boot/firmware
is? Is it Raspberry specific?
In Wikipedia I found only /boot
, this is also what I learned from books many years ago.
root@jk4:/home/ubuntu# ls -al /boot/firmware
total 99020
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 4 05:29 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26247 Jul 4 05:29 bcm2710-rpi-2-b.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26247 Jul 4 05:28 bcm2710-rpi-2-b.dtb.bak
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27288 Jul 4 05:29 bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27288 Jul 4 05:28 bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb.bak
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27907 Jul 4 05:29 bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27907 Jul 4 05:28 bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb.bak
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26102 Jul 4 05:29 bcm2710-rpi-cm3.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26102 Jul 4 05:28 bcm2710-rpi-cm3.dtb.bak
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 46368 Jul 4 05:29 bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 46368 Jul 4 05:28 bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb.bak
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19924 Jul 4 05:29 bcm2837-rpi-3-a-plus.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19924 Jul 4 05:28 bcm2837-rpi-3-a-plus.dtb.bak
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20373 Jul 4 05:29 bcm2837-rpi-3-b.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20373 Jul 4 05:28 bcm2837-rpi-3-b.dtb.bak
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20793 Jul 4 05:29 bcm2837-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20793 Jul 4 05:28 bcm2837-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb.bak
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19700 Jul 4 05:29 bcm2837-rpi-cm3-io3.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19700 Jul 4 05:28 bcm2837-rpi-cm3-io3.dtb.bak
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 52304 Apr 23 15:12 bootcode.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2603 Jul 4 05:29 boot.scr
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2603 Jul 4 05:28 boot.scr.bak
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 141 Apr 23 15:12 cmdline.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1117 Apr 23 15:12 config.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3112 Apr 23 15:12 fixup4cd.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6200 Apr 23 15:12 fixup4.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9192 Apr 23 15:12 fixup4db.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9192 Apr 23 15:12 fixup4x.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2656 Apr 23 15:12 fixup_cd.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6745 Apr 23 15:12 fixup.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9817 Apr 23 15:12 fixup_db.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9819 Apr 23 15:12 fixup_x.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29527996 Jul 4 05:29 initrd.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29528551 Jul 4 05:28 initrd.img.bak
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 240 Apr 23 15:12 meta-data
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 770 Apr 23 15:12 network-config
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1371 Jul 4 05:29 overlay_map.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1371 Jul 4 05:28 overlay_map.dtb.bak
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 34816 Jul 4 05:29 overlays
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1514 Apr 23 15:12 README
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 784316 Apr 23 15:12 start4cd.elf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4593508 Apr 23 15:12 start4db.elf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2784800 Apr 23 15:12 start4.elf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3546468 Apr 23 15:12 start4x.elf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 690884 Apr 23 15:12 start_cd.elf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4859912 Apr 23 15:12 start_db.elf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2883204 Apr 23 15:12 start.elf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3797384 Apr 23 15:12 start_x.elf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 327 Apr 23 15:12 syscfg.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 493528 Apr 23 15:12 uboot_rpi_3.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 492824 Apr 23 15:12 uboot_rpi_4.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 200 Apr 23 15:12 usercfg.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2114 Apr 23 15:12 user-data
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8381742 Jul 4 05:29 vmlinuz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8381742 Jul 4 05:28 vmlinuz.bak
I recognize a few files like the Linux Kernel. The bcm*
looks like Broadcom stuff. Please provide details about it.
Is it Raspberry specific?
Yes. Sort of. The files to me are more important and are indeed for a PI installation. /boot/firmware
is not a default Linux directory.
Regarding the content: see raspberrypi's topic on "boot":
start.elf, start_x.elf, start_db.elf, start_cd.elf, start4.elf, start4x.elf, start4cd.elf, start4db.elf
These are binary blobs (firmware) that are loaded on to the VideoCore in the SoC, which then take over the boot process. start.elf is the basic firmware,
start_x.elf
includes camera drivers and codec, start_db.elf is a debug version of the firmware, andstart_cd.elf
is a cut-down version with no support hardware blocks like codecs and 3D, and for use whengpu_mem=16
is specified in config.txt. More information on how to use these can be found in the config.txt section.start4.elf, start4x.elf, start4cd.elf, and start4db.elf are firmware files specific to the Pi 4.
Some other files are listed too.
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