Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 16:13:48 -0700 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.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: <206AFC1E-88CA-4F3B-897B-14444CE0905C@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPv3WKdiQTJ%2BLSmzc5Ljk9SEAq=S%2BO2effO-10R8sDq1ytaYvg@mail.gmail.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> <CAPv3WKdiQTJ%2BLSmzc5Ljk9SEAq=S%2BO2effO-10R8sDq1ytaYvg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2021-Mar-28, at 15:52, Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com> wrote: H Mark, niedz., 28 mar 2021 o 22:15 Mark Millard via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> napisa=C5=82(a): >=20 > On 2021-Mar-28, at 12:48, Klaus K=C3=BCchemann via freebsd-arm = <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> wrote: >>=20 >>> Am 28.03.2021 um 21:35 schrieb S=C3=B8ren Schmidt = <soren.schmidt@gmail.com>: >>>=20 >>> On 28 Mar 2021, at 21.23, Daniel Engberg = <daniel.engberg.lists@pyret.net> wrote: >>>=20 >>>> 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 without any protection regarding ESD. Pretty much all hardware = comes with clear 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 however I would recommend higher rated one if = you plan to attach non external powered USB devices. >>>>=20 >>>> 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) support (yet) upstream for booting off NVME or SATA/AHCI. >>>=20 >>> Well, at least u-boot2021.01 has all the needed support to boot a = rockpro64 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 = above media. >>>=20 >>> -- >>> S=C3=B8ren Schmidt >>> sos@deepcore.dk / sos@freebsd.org >>> "So much code to hack, so little time=E2=80=9C >>>=20 >>=20 >> yes, I used 2021.04-rcXX( master, self-compiled)=E2=80=A6 the strange = thing 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> ( = because 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 = voltage-change . >> =E2=80=A6 I`ll post some debug-output the next hours=E2=80=A6 (`guess = pcie has mem alloc issue from dmesg)=E2=80=A6 >>=20 >> Anyone successfully booting from nvme on any aarch64-board ?? >=20 > 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: >=20 > = https://unrelentingtech.s3.dualstack.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/flash-image-2= 020-07-01-mainline-tfa.bin >=20 > and the system just worked (/dev/nda0). I updated the FreeBSD in > this configuration and that booted too. >=20 > (The Optane was originally initialized while in a amd64 system > and so was boot-ready when first plugged into an aarch64.) >=20 > This is not the MACCHIATObin's normal configuration and things > were put back to normal after the experiment. >=20 > The MACCHIATObin Double Shot has 4 Cortex-A72 cores. >=20 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 =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar)
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