Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2022 10:40:09 +0100 From: Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen <jsm@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>, Mike Karels <mike@karels.net> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: randomdev hangs during initial boot of -current on Raspberry Pi Message-ID: <3f375da9-c2a0-8c9e-33e5-d8273e84590c@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <D2B6A3A7-98FB-4DAD-BDFF-65F6A3034663@yahoo.com> References: <D2B6A3A7-98FB-4DAD-BDFF-65F6A3034663.ref@yahoo.com> <D2B6A3A7-98FB-4DAD-BDFF-65F6A3034663@yahoo.com>
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On 31.01.2022 22.20, Mark Millard wrote: > Mike Karels <mike_at_karels.net> wrote on > Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 12:27:41 -0600 : > >> A bisect >> would be rather laborious, building a modified SD card each time, >> even if just testing kernel changes. Any other suggestions? > > Historically I've used: > > https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/main/?C=M&O=D > > and the likes of kernel.txz (or more) from, for example: > > https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/main/b4cc5d63b6112746598d21413c9800a43171da52/arm64/aarch64/?C=M&O=D > > to update just the kernel (or whatever) and rebooted. > (It can help to have a somewhat older world that is > left in place instead of running newer worlds on older > kernels. Avoiding needing got update world as well has > been helpful when testing for kernel issues.) > > This avoids building the kernels and allows a somewhat > bisect like activity until some subrange has no > arm64/aarch64 artifacts available. > > One can sometimes run into the dates for the sort for: > > https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/main/?C=M&O=D > > not matching up well with the dates on the files of > interest in specific sub directoreis. (Some sort of > directory update?) This can make the bisect far more > difficult, given the choice to not have the directory > names prefixed with text that would sort by a > date/time estimate when sorted by name. (Only using > the commit id/hash completely randomizes the naming.) > > > === > Mark Millard > marklmi at yahoo.com > > Hi My bisect gives: The latest working is: dda9847275da79ccbb2f0b7079b250e28b3b3b2a The excact following commit: 74cf7cae4d2238ae6d1c949b2bbd077e1ab33634 is bad. So 74cf7cae4d2238ae6d1c949b2bbd077e1ab33634 is where the problem starts for me. Hope that someone can explain why 74cf7cae4d2238ae6d1c949b2bbd077e1ab33634 does block entropy/random seeding on first boot around growfs invocation on arm64 /Jsm
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