Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 02:57:21 -0700 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-orangepi-plus-2e/README out of date ; orangepi-plus-2e and RPi2 v1.1 get "Kernel args: (null)" Message-ID: <B1C79772-0C68-479B-9A27-6F8CF5037724@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20210513111517.86336633bae9568d8599f229@bidouilliste.com> References: <40298C05-5F50-4437-B15B-7A02EA070EAE.ref@yahoo.com> <40298C05-5F50-4437-B15B-7A02EA070EAE@yahoo.com> <20210513111517.86336633bae9568d8599f229@bidouilliste.com>
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> On 2021-May-13, at 02:15, Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> On Thu, 13 May 2021 01:52:08 -0700
> Mark Millard via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
>> The updated armv7 U-Boot ports now install the likes of:
>>=20
>> # ls -Tldt /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-orangepi-plus-2e/*
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 504 May 12 07:01:10 2021 =
/usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-orangepi-plus-2e/README
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 66 May 12 07:01:10 2021 =
/usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-orangepi-plus-2e/metadata
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 490924 May 12 07:01:10 2021 =
/usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-orangepi-plus-2e/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin
>>=20
>> # ls -Tldt /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-rpi2/*
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 767 May 12 06:39:07 2021 =
/usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-rpi2/README
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 44 May 12 06:39:07 2021 =
/usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-rpi2/metadata
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 475420 May 12 06:39:07 2021 =
/usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-rpi2/u-boot.bin
>>=20
>> So, for example, no boot.scr files ro go with ubldr.bin
>> any more.
>>=20
>> But the u-boot-orangepi-plus-2e/README says . . .
>>=20
>> QUOTE
>> This version is patched so that:
>> * API features are enabled.
>> * A boot.scr (U-Boot script) that loads ubldr.bin and execute it is =
included
>> END QUOTE
>>=20
>> The u-boot-rpi2/README says . . .
>>=20
>> QUOTE
>> This version is patched so that:
>> * ELF and API features are enabled.
>> * The distroboot command knows how to load FreeBSD loader(8)
>> * By default, it loads ubldr.bin (PIE) from file ubldr.bin on the FAT
>> partition to address ${kernel_addr_r}, and launches it. If =
ubldr.bin is
>> not found, it falls back on ubldr
>> END QUOTE
>>=20
>=20
> Oups, I'll update the README, thanks for noticing this.
FYI: I only looked at examples for which I've access
to operational hardware.
>> But for the orangepi-plus-2e that I have access to I
>> now get:
>>=20
>> . . .
>> Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
>> Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... =20
>> Using DTB provided by EFI at 0x47eea000.
>> Kernel entry at 0xb2e00200...
>> Kernel args: (null)
>=20
> This is the symptoms when caches are not flushed.
> U-Boot distroboot first scans for extlinux.conf, then uboot script and
> then EFI. So this probably means that you still have a boot.scr on the
> ESP, try removing that and make sure that you have the efi loader too
> in efi/boot/bootarm.efi.
That is not the issue . . . showing more context
from the same recorded boot attempts (blank lines
and a huge number of escape sequences removed, and
using ". . ." for other omitted text):
U-Boot 2021.04 (Apr 09 2021 - 19:24:51 +0000) Allwinner Technology
CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680)
Model: Xunlong Orange Pi Plus 2E
DRAM: 2 GiB
. . .
=08FreeBSD/arm EFI loader, Revision 1.1
Command line arguments: l
Image base: 0xb8dd5000
EFI version: 2.80
EFI Firmware: Das U-Boot (rev 8225.1024)
Console: comconsole (0)
Load Path: /efi\boot\bootarm.efi
. . .
Found EFI removable media binary efi/boot/bootarm.efi
1396100 bytes read in 36 ms (37 MiB/s)
Booting /efi\boot\bootarm.efi
Consoles: EFI console =20
|=08/=08-=08\=08|=08/=08-=08\=08|=08/=08-=08\=08|=08/=08-=08\=08|=08/=08-=08=
\=08|=08/=08-=08\=08|=08/=08-=08\=08 Reading loader env vars from =
/efi/freebsd/loader.env
. . .
Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... =20
Using DTB provided by EFI at 0x47eea000.
Kernel entry at 0xb2e00200...
Kernel args: (null)
and:
U-Boot 2021.04 (May 12 2021 - 13:36:42 +0000)
DRAM: 948 MiB
RPI 2 Model B (0xa21041)
. . .
=08FreeBSD/arm EFI loader, Revision 1.1
Command line arguments: l
Image base: 0x39df8000
EFI version: 2.80
EFI Firmware: Das U-Boot (rev 8225.1024)
Console: comconsole (0)
Load Path: /efi\boot\bootarm.efi
. . .
Found EFI removable media binary efi/boot/bootarm.efi
1396100 bytes read in 38 ms (35 MiB/s)
libfdt fdt_check_header(): FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC
Booting /efi\boot\bootarm.efi
Consoles: EFI console =20
|=08/=08-=08\=08|=08/=08-=08\=08|=08/=08 Reading loader env vars from =
/efi/freebsd/loader.env
. . .
Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... =20
Using DTB provided by EFI at 0x7ef6000.
Kernel entry at 0x33e00200...
Kernel args: (null)
No *.scr files, no ubldr* files. Showing
from the efi partition mounted on a Rock64:
# find /mnt/dtb/ -print
/mnt/dtb/
/mnt/dtb/sun8i-h3-orangepi-plus2e.dtb
/mnt/dtb/overlays
/mnt/dtb/overlays/sun8i-h3-i2c0.dtbo
/mnt/dtb/overlays/spigen-rpi2.dtbo
# find /mnt/efi/ -print
/mnt/efi/
/mnt/efi/boot
/mnt/efi/boot/bootarm.efi
# ls -Tld /mnt/u*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 475420 May 12 06:39:06 2021 /mnt/u-boot.bin
# ls -Tld /mnt/*.scr
ls: /mnt/*.scr: Invalid argument
I'll not list the files from the RPi* firmware.
>> and that is the last of the output.
>>=20
>> The RPi2 v1.1 is similar:
>>=20
>> Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
>> Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... =20
>> Using DTB provided by EFI at 0x7ef6000.
>> Kernel entry at 0x33e00200...
>> Kernel args: (null)
>>=20
>> and that is the last of the output.
=3D=3D=3D
Mark Millard
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