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? Message-ID: <CAPv3WKdiQTJ%2BLSmzc5Ljk9SEAq=S%2BO2effO-10R8sDq1ytaYvg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <FBC36A5C-3948-4EB3-B7C3-4C16C3D9119E@yahoo.com> References: <7b284f7718556f1cf0a7a205c98db6b1@pyret.net> <8F8F3491-3E1F-45C8-BF61-09F7557F48A5@googlemail.com> <265dbf9c33f4ce09c702c9d7fae93c9b@pyret.net> <D6C3F9FE-D34F-4CCB-80D6-46AC29F3AD39@gmail.com> <C166F287-91D2-408E-B43B-222D58EA52BD@googlemail.com> <FBC36A5C-3948-4EB3-B7C3-4C16C3D9119E@yahoo.com>
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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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