Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 09:45:19 +0200 From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> To: Danilo =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eg=EAa?= Gondolfo <danilo@freebsd.org> Cc: Vincent Milum Jr <freebsd-arm@darkain.com>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: big.LITTLE status for rk3399/rockpro64? Message-ID: <20200714094519.f61b85e267d24c02f6a1c09f@bidouilliste.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFU7VyNzbFbOP5rMuVEZiMpHs_pdaD3X0Cp0GJRZTyd2pXTHPQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <878sfnz61y.wl-bsd@zeppelin.net> <CAOWUMWGY%2B=w%2B9jJ8yhb9Lew6MjGorVquvATgok1_fyRMUBS6vg@mail.gmail.com> <CAFU7VyNzbFbOP5rMuVEZiMpHs_pdaD3X0Cp0GJRZTyd2pXTHPQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 19:06:22 +0100 Danilo Eg=EAa Gondolfo <danilo@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 6:27 PM Vincent Milum Jr <freebsd-arm@darkain.com> > wrote: >=20 > > I'm curious about this, too. I recently got the Pinebook Pro up and > > running, and would like to start testing all 6 CPU cores for doing > > compilation tasks. > > > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 10:19 AM Josh Howard <bsd@zeppelin.net> wrote: > > > > > It looks like it's been a couple of months since there's been any news > > > around it. Anything in particular still needed as far as testing or > > > debugging that goes? I have a Rockpro64 and a RockPi4e (though I don't > > have > > > that booting yet.) that I could potentially test on. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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" > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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" > > >=20 > The number of CPUs was limited here > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=3Drevision&revision=3D360321 >=20 > If you remove the hw.ncpu from your loader.conf you'll be able to use all > the 6 cores. >=20 > Although the commit message mentions a "known issue" with the big.LITTLE > architecture, I was able to use all the 6 cores to rebuild the entire > system and I didn't face any issue. >=20 > Maybe manu@ could give us some context about that. On rockpro64 it was (it's been a while since I've tested) very easy to trigger a panic doing anything usb related (sometimes just inserting a usb thumb drive would triggers it). This is why I've disabled the big cores on the rockpro64 image. --=20 Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
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