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Date:      Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:56:44 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CUBOX snapshots working?
Message-ID:  <1506452204.73082.147.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20170926204622.67ae9edbca62e2dcdbd1ea31@bidouilliste.com>
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On Tue, 2017-09-26 at 20:46 +0200, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:21:52 -0600
> Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2017-09-26 at 20:04 +0200, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:32:21 -0600
> > > Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > One would think that sauce for the goose would be sauce for the
> > > > gander. But is this particular Cubox now useless with FreeBSD?
> > > > And if so, why? It is not an unusual model. The Cubox does work
> > > > if I flash their "Ignition" startup software (which is used to
> > > > bootstrap by downloading various OS images) to the same
> > > > Micro SD card.
> > > > 
> > > > --Brett Glass
> > >  The problem isn't FreeBSD related, it's U-Boot related.
> > > 
> > >  You could test build mainline u-boot just to confirm that it
> > > isn't
> > > something due to our ports.
> > > 
> > If we used to provide working cubox images and we don't anymore,
> > it's
> > hard to call that anything but a freebsd problem.
>  There is working cubox images, the last one is from yesterday.
>  You even say yourself that you did test it and that it worked.
>  Do we even know if the snapshot worked for this board ?
>  Brett, could you test the 11.0 release for example ? (I don't
> remember
> if for 11.1 we already switch u-boot or not).
> 
> > 
> > You seem to be implying that this is another problem caused by
> > switching from vendor-specific to mainline uboot.  I'm not sure
> > that's
> > the case here, but if it is, be clear:  It is purely a freebsd
> > problem,
> > because it was purely our choice (not mine) to switch from
> > something
> > that worked to something that doesn't.
> > 
> > -- Ian
>  Yes, maybe switching to mainline for IMX boards was a premature one,
> I
> honestly don't have IMX board and don't know which way we should
> take.
> All I can say is that for TI and Allwinner board, mainline U-Boot is
> better (at least the support is the same). If you want to switch back
> to vendor u-boot for IMX board fell free to do so (as long as you
> don't
> change the other SoC U-Boot).
> 

No, the mainline uboot for TI is NOT better.  It cannot netboot, and
that is a regression from the previous version, which worked just fine.

-- Ian


> > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > At 08:21 AM 9/26/2017, Ian Lepore wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > I just DLed and booted that snapshot on my Cubox-4i without
> > > > > any
> > > > > problems.  As near as I can tell, the only difference is
> > > > > you've
> > > > > got the
> > > > > dual-core chip and mine has the quad.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The same u-boot should work for both.  At least, that was the
> > > > > case when
> > > > > using the vendor-provided u-boot; the images are now built
> > > > > from
> > > > > mainline u-boot.  The output you provided does show that it
> > > > > detected
> > > > > the right kind of chip and amount of ram, so I think it
> > > > > should
> > > > > support
> > > > > both flavors of cubox.
> > > > > 
> > > > > -- Ian
> > > > _______________________________________________
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> > > > rg"
> 



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