Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:39:11 -0700 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: Rahul Rameshbabu <sergeantsagara@protonmail.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of the freebsd/crochet project? Message-ID: <6770937E-CBA2-4B50-AD7E-71707E36BFF1@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <19481390-118F-4527-BEDC-9935C695A27D@yahoo.com> References: <87ttqrqnal.fsf@protonmail.com> <ZS6FAjRlRimUVoWR@int21h> <CANCZdfq%2B4L-guWeEck5OqgFTuXLv%2B6BLOfcDuqVgUSvm7X9SUg@mail.gmail.com> <ZS6PuBrr9wChkhov@int21h> <CANCZdfqAhAeuc-K6O3T-E6FGgy-Lktutc3NSfcmRO5OrhSxYJg@mail.gmail.com> <87wmvjjkae.fsf@protonmail.com> <33693188-5C53-4C9E-8F67-647655E957BD@yahoo.com> <8734y5amia.fsf@protonmail.com> <19481390-118F-4527-BEDC-9935C695A27D@yahoo.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Oct 20, 2023, at 00:31, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Oct 19, 2023, at 22:30, Rahul Rameshbabu = <sergeantsagara@protonmail.com> wrote: >=20 >> On Thu, 19 Oct, 2023 00:45:25 -0700 "Mark Millard" = <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> On Oct 18, 2023, at 21:41, Rahul Rameshbabu = <sergeantsagara@protonmail.com> wrote: >>>=20 >>>> On Tue, 17 Oct, 2023 09:01:33 -0600 "Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> = wrote: >>>>> On Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 7:44 AM void <void@f-m.fm> wrote: >>>>>=20 >>>>> On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 07:13:28AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: >>>>>=20 >>>>>> Crochet has no active maintainers. Most people have moved on to = poudriere. >>>>>=20 >>>>> Does poudriere handle the msdos uboot *and* efi part when >>>>> creating the image? >>>>>=20 >>>>> Yes. I worked with manu years ago to put all the needed metadata = for the different boards into the ports... >>>>=20 >>>> It does but it seems to have an unfortunate caveat. It assumes that >>>> FAT16 is supported by all embedded targets. The Raspberry Pi 4 and = I >>>> assume the Pi 5 as well drop support for FAT16 >>>=20 >>> The snapshot images booted the RPI4B's that I have access to just = fine >>> last I tried such. But release/arm64/RPI.conf and = release/tools/arm.subr >>> which are used to build such uses (selective axtractions across = files): >>>=20 >>> FAT_SIZE=3D"50m -b 1m" >>> FAT_TYPE=3D"16" >>> . . . >>> gpart add -t efi -l efi -a 512k -s ${FAT_SIZE} ${mddev} >>> newfs_msdos -L efi -F ${FAT_TYPE} /dev/${mddev}s1 >>>=20 >>> FreeBSD release images are also build with such: efi partition >>> type and a FAT16 file system. >>>=20 >>> Looking at a (my abbreviation) RaspiOS64 boot media used to boot >>> the RPi4B's (official RPi* media content, not FreeBSD materials): >>>=20 >>> # newfs_msdos -N /dev/da0s1 >>> /dev/da0s1: 523984 sectors in 32749 FAT16 clusters (8192 = bytes/cluster) >>> BytesPerSec=3D512 SecPerClust=3D16 ResSectors=3D1 FATs=3D2 = RootDirEnts=3D512 Media=3D0xf0 FATsecs=3D128 SecPerTrack=3D63 Heads=3D255 = HiddenSecs=3D0 HugeSectors=3D524288 >>>=20 >>> But it does have a partition type of fat32lba: >>>=20 >>> # gpart show -p /dev/da0 >>> =3D> 63 468862065 da0 MBR (224G) >>> 63 8129 - free - (4.0M) >>> 8192 524288 da0s1 fat32lba (256M) >>> 532480 468329648 da0s2 linux-data (223G) >>>=20 >>> Do you know some specific RPi4B EEPROM content for which a FAT16 >>> file syatem is not supported? (The EEPROM has the RPi4B boot >>> loader.) Or are you saying some U-Boot vintage is restricted to >>> FAT32 file systems for loading FreeBSD's EFI/BOOT/bootaa64.efi ? >>=20 >> Yes, I believe that newer EEPROMs in 2020 and above (don't have the >> exact release version but I can bisect if we need to know) no longer >> support FAT16 unfortunately. >=20 > I just booted a RPi4B Rev 1.5 "C0T" part that has: >=20 > RPi: BOOTLOADER release VERSION:8ba17717 DATE: 2023/01/11 TIME: = 17:40:52 > BOOTMODE: 0x06 partition 63 build-ts BUILD_TIMESTAMP=3D1673458852 = serial c740af3c boardrev d03115 stc 421180 > Halt: wake: 1 power_off: 0 >=20 > off the (what I call) RaspiOS64 media that I referenced earlier. >=20 > That means FAT16 with a partition indicating fat32lba. >=20 > There have been bug fixes, such as the 2022=3D01-31 EEPROM release = that > reported: "FAT/GPT fixes and file-system performance improvements." >=20 >> Here is a relevant link on Raspberry Pi >> forums but I can experiment with pinning an exact EEPROM version from >> the Raspberry PI repository if need be. When I got my Raspberry Pi 4 >> board recently, I did an upgrade to the latest EEPROM version and >> noticed this issue. >>=20 >> * https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=3D278295#p1685235 >=20 > At that point (2020-06) there were only 2 tagged EEPROM content > releases: >=20 > v2020.04.16-137ad > v2019.09.10-137ad >=20 > There are 11 from after 2020-06. >=20 >> * https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/releases >>=20 >> I am using the BOOT_UART feature of the Raspberry Pi 4 for this >> debugging. I was debugging why the image I created at the had failed = and >> noticed the bootloader was failing to actually access/read any = content >> from the boot partition of the SD card. Switching to FAT32 resolved = the >> issue for me immediately, making me trust the assumption about the = state >> of later EEPROM releases from the repository. >=20 > As I've indicated, the official releases of official RPi* > images have FAT16 files systems for the RPi* firmware --and > they boot just fine when dd'd to the USB3 media that I use. >=20 > Similarly, the modern official FreeBSD images boot just fine > and also have FAT16 for the msdosfs for the RPi* > firmware+U-Boot+FreeBSED-UEFI-loader. >=20 > FreeBSD has had problems with a U-Boot vintage that was messed > up for 8 GiByte RPi4B's. But that is now in the past. >=20 >> I noticed in that first link I added here, there seems to be mixed >> opinions on whether the FAT16 file system is supported or not on = latest >> EEPROM releases for the Pi 4. Let me go back and test once again with = a >> FAT16 file system for my boot partition. I am currently running Jan = 11, >> 2023 release (I see they have a new release for Oct 18, 2023). >=20 > I've not tested the 2023-10-18 release. >=20 >> On a side note for myself, might be nice to throw the rpi-eeprom = tools >> into a port for others to easily grab. >>=20 >>>=20 >>> Or may be you are referencing the partition type (expressed here >>> in gpart terms), instead of the actual file system type that is >>> contained? : >>>=20 >>> efi The system partition for computers that = use the >>> Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI). The = scheme- >>> specific types are "!239" for MBR, and >>> "!c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b" = for GPT. >>> . . . >>> fat16 A partition that contains a FAT16 = filesystem. The >>> scheme-specific type is "!6" for MBR. >>>=20 >>> fat32 A partition that contains a FAT32 = filesystem. The >>> scheme-specific type is "!11" for MBR. >>>=20 >>> fat32lba A partition that contains a FAT32 (LBA) >>> filesystem. The scheme-specific type is = "!12" for >>> MBR. >>>=20 >>> (It has been some time since last I tried it, but last I tried >>> partition type fat16, the RPi4B's boot from it just fine if I >>> remember right. But GPT is supported, not just MBR.) >>>=20 >>=20 >> I am not referring to the partition type rather than the real = filesystem >> type, but thanks for checking. In my boot flow with the image I >> generate, I am using the efi partition type. >>=20 >>>> , so the boot partition >>>> needs to be FAT32. >>>>=20 >>>=20 >>> Not for the actual file system for any fairly modern vintage of >>> RPi4B EEPROM content or U-Boot that I'm aware of. I've less >>> certainty about the range of partition types, not having tested >>> such in recent times. >>>=20 >>> Is there a chance you are using so large of an msdos file >>> system that a FAT32/FAT32LBA file system is a requirement? >>=20 >> Great question but I believe that is not the case since for the same >> msdos file system (though with different components from = rpi-firmware), >> I am able to boot the Raspberry Pi 3 up correctly. Let me verify once >> more FAT16 (the filesystem) was indeed problematic for me since I was >> debugging other issues like not realizing the Pi 4 needed different >> components from the rpi-firmware project compared to previous boards. >>=20 >=20 One more point: the 1st Capture.JPG image shows: c-count 0 c-size 0 r-dir 0 r-sec 0 As I understand it, that is showing that the information was corrupt as read: valid FAT16 would not have that combination. =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?6770937E-CBA2-4B50-AD7E-71707E36BFF1>