Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 10:48:01 -0800 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB-serial adapter suggestions needed Message-ID: <F0095975-70FA-4668-9DB2-F8D8EE4DFB8E@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <ZaF2IInN9fJlEmQD@www.zefox.net> References: <ZZoOMoM/iwcFqSNi@www.zefox.net> <7D27DF9F-AA9A-4D44-BC28-8CC637D0F550@yahoo.com> <C40967D3-D480-41DD-8054-421EA7AE5EFE@yahoo.com> <ZZy2FRO7MCOLMQhp@www.zefox.net> <DD96D1B0-92A8-4CBD-9661-FC86AC547405@yahoo.com> <ZZ2E8OZJBfXLkwQ%2B@www.zefox.net> <ZZ3NGeOtadKMHgIj@www.zefox.net> <3012A549-9482-4D69-9DF4-7987E650DFFA@yahoo.com> <ZaF2IInN9fJlEmQD@www.zefox.net>
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On Jan 12, 2024, at 09:25, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 05:03:42PM -0800, Mark Millard wrote: >> >> www.zefox.org is the aarch64 that is not configured in config.txt >> in the normal aarch64 manor. As I've requested before, please test >> using a config.txt that instead has: >> >> QUOTE >> [all] >> arm_64bit=1 >> dtparam=audio=on,i2c_arm=on,spi=on >> dtoverlay=mmc >> dtoverlay=disable-bt >> device_tree_address=0x4000 >> kernel=u-boot.bin >> >> [pi4] >> hdmi_safe=1 >> armstub=armstub8-gic.bin >> >> # Local addition: >> [all] >> force_mac_address=b8:27:eb:71:46:4f >> END QUOTE >> >> Please do not use a configuration based in part on armv7 FreeBSD >> config.txt material any more for the testing activity: Just use >> the FreeBSD normal aarch64 configuration with the force_mac_address >> related material added at the end. >> > > Just tried it now. The boot seems _extremely_ slow and invited > at least some intervention (manually typing run bootcmd_usb0 > at the u-boot prompt) but it did come up multi-user. The above seems odd to me. What version of U-Boot is in use? 2023.10 tries TFTP before USB in U-Boot and the timeout sequence totals to minutes. One can escape to the U-Boot> prompt early on and: U-Boot> bootefi bootmgr in order to avoid the TFTP attempt if you are using 2023.10 . I've not yet figured out how to have TFTP be tried only after USB by default. 2023.10 does this for both forms of config.txt . > It is able > to function as a terminal server to nemesis.zefox.com, so I'll > just watch it for a while. The netmap has been updated to reflect > the change to config.txt. > > An aside, none of the seven hosts has dropped a tip session over > the past day or so, except when taken down intentionally. > >> I want to know if this also fails when powerd is not in >> use anywhere. >> > > For now powerd is off on all FreeBSD hosts, the Pi4 workstation > is running something called upowerd as always. I'm thinking to > eventualy re-start powerd on only a subset of hosts in hope that > will make behavioral differences more obvious. === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
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