Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 15:42:52 -0800 From: "Jayachandran C." <jchandra@freebsd.org> To: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ThunderX2 support in FreeBSD/arm64 Message-ID: <CA%2B7sy7BS9JvHuzYS2U-tCZ3N_e3_rtT7nGG1fRtbqHtY4TKEQQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2D8oqg%2BAH=VCj0G==WZzMAoncVi8MmO_v1oCM4mpHXucw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2B7sy7BWtSi5uDgusf-sEHd06EGXwnUxo9cr8A9gLh1L_YJoXw@mail.gmail.com> <CAPyFy2DXHvAudezY9TUjnADO4FAbeKthxGyEOvow89iXmXa9ig@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2B7sy7CGqEPpZ5LMcB7iy-m=hOiH6waauO9GPESicJc=kTnGMg@mail.gmail.com> <CAPyFy2D8oqg%2BAH=VCj0G==WZzMAoncVi8MmO_v1oCM4mpHXucw@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Ed, On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 12:23 PM Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 15:52, Jayachandran C. <jchandra@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > There seems to be 2 issues here - both of them happen when the AMI > > firmware is used. > > The first issue is that the efi framebuffer does not work, and I am > > not able to select the serial console with AMI firmware. The second > > issue is that the on-chip SATA controller is not setup correctly by > > the AMI firmware and can cause a 'NBU BAR error' failure. > > > > I have uploaded a test firmware and instructions to > > https://people.freebsd.org/~jchandra/testfw/ which should boot FreeBSD > > fine. This is an internal build which does not have both the problems > > above. Let me know if this works, and I will try to push the fixes to > > AMI. > > Thanks, with the test firmware I'm able to make progress and the > kernel boots fine. It's now hanging while trying to mount root over > NFS; final console output is: > > Trying to mount root from nfs:10.0.0.1:/tank/export-root/arm64/ [rw]... > taskqgroup_attach_cpu_deferred: setaffinity failed: 3 I have not tried this configuration (rootfs over NFS) yet, will give it a try soon. Also please note that the default qlogic NIC on Sabre may not work with FreeBSD. I had setup the FreeBSD partition on my system by creating a freebsd disk image in kvm/qemu and then copying the image to a partition - this works well. JC.
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