Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 13:45:47 +0000 From: myfreeweb <greg@unrelenting.technology> To: Dan Kotowski <dan.kotowski@a9development.com>, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Layerscape/QorIQ LX2160X Message-ID: <7AFDA7E0-82EC-4CD2-BB03-B7E33D019EDA@unrelenting.technology> In-Reply-To: <3nsQUg1Gm4VFYfpHVELk6PWaHyYNb3CoyoKnLV55_3VR48tr90bhaseG3sJg007L8czZ4mXUmR_YMQvYVdMbUs1bsoqGtZp5d17FqYT6b-o=@a9development.com> References: <seVuHXPQIJwJasZ3wb2s2t61PcRQY5fyhT6njAvxEJ47Sj02pDtHbh-6EyHOf5M22BZdd27q4wK-zMPfCkJ2FIhFNnhILGxOQPebbQ19-0M=@a9development.com> <72D47662-240E-4851-844A-A4F92F18B3F2@unrelenting.technology> <20200516051207.GT4213@funkthat.com> <3nsQUg1Gm4VFYfpHVELk6PWaHyYNb3CoyoKnLV55_3VR48tr90bhaseG3sJg007L8czZ4mXUmR_YMQvYVdMbUs1bsoqGtZp5d17FqYT6b-o=@a9development.com>
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On May 18, 2020 1:01:53 PM UTC, Dan Kotowski <dan=2Ekotowski@a9development= =2Ecom> wrote: >After a solid 16hrs this weekend, I can confirm that the pre-built images= do NOT "just work", at least not with SolidRun's HoneyComb version rev 1= =2E4=2E > >The 12=2E1 arm7 GENERICSD image fails to boot=2E The included EFI/BOOT/bo= otarm=2Eefi fails to load=2E I dropped in a copy of EFI/BOOT/bootarm64=2Eef= i from the aarch64 image, but that failed to handoff the process properly= =2E Tested with both u-boot and UEFI=2E Why would you even try 32-bit? >The 12=2E1 aarch64 memstick installer iamge fails out trying to mount the= UFS partition and drops into the mountroot> shell with error 19=2E Listing= GEOM managed disk devices returned an empty list=2E What devices does the boot log show? No xhci I guess, how about pci, sdhci= ? >My silicon is rev 1=2E4 so I have to use the SD slot for the firmware lay= er, which is a mild inconvenience because I can't use that slot for an OS i= amge (https://github=2Ecom/SolidRun/lx2160a_build/issues/36#issuecomment-62= 9865674)=2E The comment there says silicon rev 2 starts with board rev 1=2E5, but linu= x4kix on Twitter said the 1=2E4 board is rev 2 silicon! >Unfortunately that's where I ran out of time=2E I spent most of the time = tracing and tweaking SolidRun's build scripts, testing various combinations= of firmware builds and boot images, and learning my way through both the u= -boot and UEFI implementations=2E Please don't waste time on u-boot=2E >Barring other simple ideas, my next step is to make buildworld for TARGET= =3Darm64 TARGET_ARCH=3Daarch64, drop that on an NVMe gumstick, and see if I= can get that booted=2E You can just dd the memstick to an nvme or sata drive as well=2E
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