Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 16:34:34 +0100 From: ArnoB <freebsd@rgbaz.eu> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Pine64 experience Message-ID: <046bfb8e-10b2-8554-9298-74f6875cc4be@rgbaz.eu> In-Reply-To: <20170220124619.7f04ad6a@zeta.dino.sk> References: <20170220124619.7f04ad6a@zeta.dino.sk>
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On 20-02-17 12:46, Milan Obuch wrote: > Hi, > > some time ago I've got Pine64 board with 1 GB RAM. I decided to put > FreeBSD on it as I saw arm64 architecture being worked on. First I > tried to build u-boot, it worked somehow, but I was not able to find > out the way boot works here, and did not find much time to play > afterwards. > > As I found http://www.raspbsd.org/pine64.html I decided to try it out. > There are two images, however, none worked for me out of the box. I > realised it was because my SD card was slightly smaller than 2 GB so > image does not fit in, but I just created gpart structure mostly the > same as was the image, just with a bit smaller UFS partition, copied EFI > partition as full device with dd, null mounted ufs device from image > and copied it to my newly created filesystem. > > It worked, I can boot and play with it. I decided to try native rebuild > as a stress/stability test. It was a bit challenging, but basically it > worked. First I create some workspace on my nfs server for it, so I can > mount_nfs both /usr/src and /usr/obj directories. I know there is > plenty of space necessary for buldworld/buildkernel. > > First trouble was our src tree is not yet fully equipped for buildworld > on arm64. There is no working linker yet, I think, make buildworld > bails out with request to install aarch64-binutils. I found it is not > possible to build it from ports because of missing linker, so > installing precompiled package was possibly the only option at this > point. It was not straightforward either, but after deleting md > filesystems for /tmp, /var/log and /var/tmp (they was not big enough > for some temporary file, and I decided to free memory as well at an > expence of slower access to files affected) from /etc/fstab and reboot > I was able to execute > > env ABI=FreeBSD:11:aarch64 pkg install aarch64-binutils > > which installed both pkg and aarch64-binutils packages. I know from my > earlier attempts to cross compile world for arm64 it was enough to > build world, but it was not enough for native build. Trouble was our > build environment is sanitized and aarch64-binutils package is > installed into /usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/{bin,lib} directories, so > they are not in path. I did not find other way to get it working > without too much fussing with makefiles et all, but simple crude hack > worked - I created links with > > ln -s /usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/bin/* /bin > > Nothing more was necessary for native buildworld/buildkernel to > succeed. At this point after nfs mounting /usr/port I was able to build > ports. > > When trying installworld, it proceeded almost flawlessly, just at the > end following error was reported: > > ===> etc (install) > ===> etc/newsyslog.conf.d (install) > ===> etc/sendmail (install) > cd /usr/src/etc/../share/man; make makedb > makewhatis /usr/share/man > makewhatis /usr/share/openssl/man > <jemalloc>: /usr/src/lib/libc/../../contrib/jemalloc/include/jemalloc/internal/tsd.h:687: > Failed assertion: "tsd_booted" *** Signal 6 > > Remaining steps, make delete-old, mergemaster and make delete-old-libs > all completed successfully, with mergemaster being painfully slow > due /var/tmp/temproot being od SD card. > > Now I am running newly built 12-CURRENT on Pine, I looks like it works > well. Just a small nit - my 'uname -a' now prints > > FreeBSD pine 12.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #0: Mon Feb 20 > 00:47:55 CET 2017 root@tiny.dino.sk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > arm64 > > Originally it was 12.0-CURRENT #<svn revision number> - does anybody > know where this revision number is being lost? Could it be somehow > caused by fact my src tree was 'svn checkout'ed on another machine > (i386)? > > Regards, > Milan > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Great! thanks a lot for sharing! gr arno
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