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Date:      Mon, 29 Mar 2021 00:52:53 +0200
From:      Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com>
To:        Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
Cc:        =?UTF-8?Q?Klaus_K=C3=BCchemann?= <maciphone2@googlemail.com>,  freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Any good alternative to Raspberry for Arm64?
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H Mark,

niedz., 28 mar 2021 o 22:15 Mark Millard via freebsd-arm
<freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> napisa=C5=82(a):
>
> On 2021-Mar-28, at 12:48, Klaus K=C3=BCchemann via freebsd-arm <freebsd-a=
rm at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Am 28.03.2021 um 21:35 schrieb S=C3=B8ren Schmidt <soren.schmidt@gmail=
.com>:
> >>
> >> On 28 Mar 2021, at 21.23, Daniel Engberg <daniel.engberg.lists@pyret.n=
et> wrote:
> >>
> >>> ESD can kill any type of hardware, there are multiple reasons why you=
 shouldn't play around with live hardware and powered off for that matter w=
ithout any protection regarding ESD. Pretty much all hardware comes with cl=
ear instructions and warnings about it. Without getting too technical I say=
 that I have a 3A PSU the runs fine at least for me however quality of PSUs=
 is a different story. It's a RockPro64 paired with a dual port PCIe NIC ho=
wever I would recommend higher rated one if you plan to attach non external=
 powered USB devices.
> >>>
> >>> We only support mainline u-boot, if you're using forks and/or patched=
 versions you're kinda "on your own" and there's no (to my knowledge) suppo=
rt (yet) upstream for booting off NVME or SATA/AHCI.
> >>
> >> Well, at least u-boot2021.01 has all the needed support to boot a rock=
pro64 or pinebookpro from nvme/sata/usb/sd/mmc/net.
> >> If you put u-boot into the SPI-flash it will boot from any of the abov=
e media.
> >>
> >> --
> >> S=C3=B8ren Schmidt
> >> sos@deepcore.dk / sos@freebsd.org
> >> "So much code to hack, so little time=E2=80=9C
> >>
> >
> > yes, I used 2021.04-rcXX( master, self-compiled)=E2=80=A6 the strange t=
hing on Rock960-board was that it needed some reboots
> > until nvme was scanned correctly in u-boot-prompt.
> > Thean it boots FreeBSD straight up and then hangs on mountroot> ( becau=
se there=E2=80=99s no /dev/nda0 or /dev/nvmeXX).
> > I presume an electrical issue since it was once(only once) detected by =
adding nvme_load=3D=E2=80=9EYES=E2=80=9C& nvd_load=3D=E2=80=9EYES=E2=80=9C =
in rc.conf.
> > The u-boot patch related to nvme on that board also was based on a volt=
age-change .
> > =E2=80=A6 I`ll post some debug-output the next hours=E2=80=A6 (`guess p=
cie has mem alloc issue from dmesg)=E2=80=A6
> >
> > Anyone successfully booting from nvme on any aarch64-board ??
>
> As reported on the list earlier, I plugged a Optane 480 GiByte
> into a MACCHIATObin Double Shot's PCIe in a system that's microsd
> card had the EDK2-variant build from:
>
> https://unrelentingtech.s3.dualstack.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/flash-image-=
2020-07-01-mainline-tfa.bin
>
> and the system just worked (/dev/nda0). I updated the FreeBSD in
> this configuration and that booted too.
>
> (The Optane was originally initialized while in a amd64 system
> and so was boot-ready when first plugged into an aarch64.)
>
> This is not the MACCHIATObin's normal configuration and things
> were put back to normal after the experiment.
>
> The MACCHIATObin Double Shot has 4 Cortex-A72 cores.
>

MacchiatoBin has fully opensource firmware, with the mainline
edk2/TF-A one can boot FreeBSD with DT or ACPI. The referenced image
from Greg should also be fine. The only significant interface missing
is the built-in PP2 NIC.

EspressoBin (and Armada 3720 in general) is very well supported -
apart from PCIE, everything should work.

Best regards,
Marcin



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