Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 19:06:22 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Danilo_Eg=C3=AAa_Gondolfo?= <danilo@freebsd.org> To: Vincent Milum Jr <freebsd-arm@darkain.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: big.LITTLE status for rk3399/rockpro64? Message-ID: <CAFU7VyNzbFbOP5rMuVEZiMpHs_pdaD3X0Cp0GJRZTyd2pXTHPQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOWUMWGY%2B=w%2B9jJ8yhb9Lew6MjGorVquvATgok1_fyRMUBS6vg@mail.gmail.com> References: <878sfnz61y.wl-bsd@zeppelin.net> <CAOWUMWGY%2B=w%2B9jJ8yhb9Lew6MjGorVquvATgok1_fyRMUBS6vg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 6:27 PM Vincent Milum Jr <freebsd-arm@darkain.com> wrote: > 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" > The number of CPUs was limited here https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=360321 If you remove the hw.ncpu from your loader.conf you'll be able to use all the 6 cores. 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. Maybe manu@ could give us some context about that.
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