Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 00:36:10 +0000 From: Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology> To: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>, Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com> Cc: freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Any good alternative to Raspberry for Arm64? Message-ID: <13518D86-E611-4438-A405-7121D69A4E70@unrelenting.technology> In-Reply-To: <05C76F74-37E6-42D6-83B6-E5B34C920516@yahoo.com> References: <7b284f7718556f1cf0a7a205c98db6b1@pyret.net> <8F8F3491-3E1F-45C8-BF61-09F7557F48A5@googlemail.com> <265dbf9c33f4ce09c702c9d7fae93c9b@pyret.net> <D6C3F9FE-D34F-4CCB-80D6-46AC29F3AD39@gmail.com> <C166F287-91D2-408E-B43B-222D58EA52BD@googlemail.com> <FBC36A5C-3948-4EB3-B7C3-4C16C3D9119E@yahoo.com> <CAPv3WKdiQTJ%2BLSmzc5Ljk9SEAq=S%2BO2effO-10R8sDq1ytaYvg@mail.gmail.com> <05C76F74-37E6-42D6-83B6-E5B34C920516@yahoo.com>
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On March 28, 2021 11:44:25 PM UTC, Mark Millard via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> wrote: >On 2021-Mar-28, at 15:52, Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com> wrote: > >> H Mark, >> >> niedz., 28 mar 2021 o 22:15 Mark Millard via freebsd-arm >> <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> napisał(a): >>> >>> On 2021-Mar-28, at 12:48, Klaus Küchemann via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> . . . >>>> >>>> Anyone successfully booting from nvme on any aarch64-board ?? >>> >>> As reported on the list earlier, I plugged a Optane 480 GiByte >>> into a MACCHIATObin Double Shot's PCIe in a system that's microsd >>> card had the EDK2-variant build from: >>> >>> https://unrelentingtech.s3.dualstack.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/flash-image-2020-07-01-mainline-tfa.bin >>> >>> and the system just worked (/dev/nda0). I updated the FreeBSD in >>> this configuration and that booted too. >>> >>> (The Optane was originally initialized while in a amd64 system >>> and so was boot-ready when first plugged into an aarch64.) >>> >>> This is not the MACCHIATObin's normal configuration and things >>> were put back to normal after the experiment. >>> >>> The MACCHIATObin Double Shot has 4 Cortex-A72 cores. >>> >> >> MacchiatoBin has fully opensource firmware, with the mainline >> edk2/TF-A one can boot FreeBSD with DT or ACPI. The referenced image >> from Greg should also be fine. The only significant interface missing >> is the built-in PP2 NIC. Interestingly, OpenBSD already has a mvpp2 driver. I don't really have the motivation to port it right now, but hey, someone could… >My memory was that there was some issue of "legacy" >PCIe devices showing up as duplicated and some change >was put in that avoided that --but prevented "modern" >PCIe devices from working. As I remember, disabling >the change was one reason Greg created his variant: >upstream choose which type of devices it wanted to >support and Greg went the other way. (No one has >support covering both contexts on the MACCHIATObin >Double Short?) Last thing I remember, Marcin promised to make a setup menu toggle for the offset ;) > removal of a headless flag in FADT I don't know if that even affects anything, I probably just copied the change from somewhere, but I like it out of a pure desire for correctness. >There were also edk2 additions of 3 lines >involving something like: > >MdeModulePkg/Bus/Pci/NvmExpressDxe/NvmExpressDxe.inf This might've happened upstream too by now, but yes, this is necessary to boot from NVMe.home | help
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