Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 23:28:05 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Klaus_K=C3=BCchemann?= <maciphone2@googlemail.com> To: Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switch to UEFI Re: CFT: alpha test of Ethernet driver for RPi4 Message-ID: <964BBCA2-5EE1-4673-966E-63D37FEDB4EA@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <57d4ba4ef95eeaf382d2c0b2407e9dab@unrelenting.technology> References: <AA1CAD4B-2275-4988-A533-203D91808DE2@googlemail.com> <202003281622.02SGMcmi027728@mail.karels.net> <57d4ba4ef95eeaf382d2c0b2407e9dab@unrelenting.technology>
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> Am 28.03.2020 um 23:15 schrieb greg@unrelenting.technology: > > March 29, 2020 12:23 AM, "Klaus Küchemann via freebsd-arm" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> I`m also working on pi4 a little while not ready… >> I recommend to switch the whole RPI-thing to UEFI/ ACPI, J.McNeill is working on that , afaik… > > He's working on NetBSD a lot, but not on FreeBSD. He is working on RPiUefi/TianoCore and NetBSD is the only OS which has already integrated the Ethernet driver into UEFI with a published Mac-Adress > >> So next step I see is to implement ACPI-xhci-driver since FreeBSD-boot PANICS on xhci- > > That's not "implement a driver", that's "fix a bug" :) > I was looking into this a month ago.. > For some reason reading from the XHCI's memory space returns junk like 0xdead. > And seems like nobody has seen that problem on NetBSD or Linux. > I'll test this a bit more now. I know the exact place where it panics(IRQ-message) and at first glance I would say: the driver is incomplete and not fully implemented(only for allwinner) , but let`s take a closer look there and work on it … > > Once we get that working, and the Ethernet driver port is published, I could add ACPI attachment to the Ethernet driver. > >> The good news is that I first saw USB working in UEFI-boot...…the ethernet driver should then later >> correspond or to be integrated into UEFI … nice to boot from a „Bios“ -style menu with a plugged >> USB-keyboard... > > Yeah, eventually there's going to be a NetBSD-derived Ethernet driver in UEFI for network booting. Yes, afaik they are planning to do that Klaus
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