Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 11:53:45 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> Cc: Da Rock <freebsd-arm@herveybayaustralia.com.au>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: u-boot efi option Message-ID: <CANCZdfrBbwA77op51V64HjMbhCDK7Fj9Wbpxn49VveZpsvN2%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20161006181000.b52d8a27d32dd25c31853948@bidouilliste.com> References: <36160c78-9095-f716-8041-3eb7656642af@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20161002123700.662f2868688b4b32465395aa@bidouilliste.com> <CANCZdfoaV90H4qSNy64sLgFnnP7hePXbbT6jOX-R1GFiNksR%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> <20161003103247.78ff7596607755ce0f204648@bidouilliste.com> <c6134956-9b3e-421c-d59d-09b08dc7701b@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20161003122309.6ab5f4b3c94c33355b682ade@bidouilliste.com> <CANCZdfrD9z67bzdNM-mpc7kOqz3cF5joKjvywEOf1S-avbr81A@mail.gmail.com> <20161006181000.b52d8a27d32dd25c31853948@bidouilliste.com>
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I'd really like to merge the release and nanobsd (and crochet if they
want to use it) building methods if at all possible.
Warner
On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> wrote:
>
> Good news, everyone!
>
> I've just tested without alignment and it works.
> What doesn't work is taking the snapshot or release image and doing
> EFI with it.
> I did nothing special when creating the sd card :
>
> gpart create -s mbr da0
> gpart add -t fat16 -s 50m -a 1m da0
> gpart show da0
> gpart add -t freebsd da0
> gpart create -s bsd da0s2
> gpart add -t freebsd-ufs da0s2
> newfs /dev/da0s2a
> newfs_msdos -F16 /dev/da0s1
>
> Now that I know everything works I'll look at the release scripts to
> see how to adapt them for EFI.
>
> On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 07:55:37 -0600
> Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
>> Sounds like we should target 12 to be EFI only then, or at least EFI
>> preferred with our infrastructure setup to cope.
>>
>> Why is there a 512k alignment requirement? Or is that just the typical
>> 512k at the start of the disk is needed for uboot issue?
>>
>> Warner
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 4:23 AM, Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 19:01:30 +1000
>> > Da Rock <freebsd-arm@herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote:
>> >
>> >> A few points that I'd like clarification on:
>> >>
>> >> 1. I'm not having much success on rpi3 with any images, but I'm working
>> >> on my own 64bit anyway. I'm also trying to get a handle on what the
>> >> process of running the system on the rpi3 actually is as well. Fun... :)
>> >> So the 512kb alignment, why is that an issue? Perhaps I'm a little
>> >> foggy, but isn't that simply a case of partitioning correctly?
>> >
>> > I don't know exactly to be honest, I have to read a lot of code.
>> >
>> >> 2. I should have mentioned this initially (which is why I was checking
>> >> efi status to see if I was banging on for no reason), but I'm having
>> >> trouble (still) compiling u-boot version that has the efi capability
>> >> (2016.09) - can't find <sys/_types.h>. I've tried with clang (x18 error)
>> >> and gcc to no avail. I tried leveraging ports, but it is not exactly
>> >> cooperating either (I'll have to try some more diags on that). Anyone
>> >> have a clue on how to get past this? -I doesn't work, or linking to
>> >> /usr/local/include.
>> >
>> > - Install {arm,aarch64}-none-{eabi,elf}-{gcc,binutils}
>> > - cd uboot-src
>> > - gmake ARCH={arm,arm64} CROSS_COMPILE={arm,aarch64}-none-{eabi,elf}-
>> > XXX_defconfig
>> > - gmake ARCH={arm,arm64} CROSS_COMPILE={arm,aarch64}-none-{eabi,elf}-
>> >
>> > I've never tried with clang.
>> >
>> >> 3. My other query was on the EFI boot process on arm. As I understood,
>> >> the u-boot is equivalent to boot0? So that means boot1 should then be in
>> >> the fat partition? Is that what you mean by /efi/boot/bootarm.efi? Or
>> >> doesn't it need to be?
>> >
>> > U-Boot can be seen as BIOS/boot0 combined.
>> > Yes boot1.efi MUST be on the fat partition and by default an EFI
>> > firmware will load /efi/boot/boot${ARCH}.efi
>> >
>> >> Apologies if I sound like a complete goose, but I'm still new to all
>> >> things arm yet - but learning fast :)
>> >
>> > Don't worry, this motivate me more to do a page on the wiki about UEFI
>> > on arm :)
>> >
>> >> On 03/10/2016 18:32, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
>> >> > I've never had any problem with it (I know it doesn't really answer to
>> >> > your question).
>> >> > SuSe have switch to EFI (the main developer for U-Boot
>> >> > EFI is from SuSe), OpenBSD too.
>> >> >
>> >> > The main problem right now for people to test is that the partition
>> >> > on the arm images that we provide aren't aligned for it to work.
>> >> >
>> >> > I either need to fix the bug for non 512kb-aligned partition or
>> >> > aligned them in the release scripts.
>> >> >
>> >> > Also I don't know which ports-tree re@ is using for snapshots. I think
>> >> > that they use the latest quarterly for release and stable.
>> >> > So we have to be carefull when we will switch the ports to UEFI.
>> >> >
>> >> > In the meantime don't hesitate to test with my patch.
>> >> >
>> >> > If you have the correct dtb in /dtb/ on the msdos part U-Boot will load
>> >> > it.
>> >> > For booting automatically just put boot1.efi as /efi/boot/bootarm.efi
>> >> >
>> >> > On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 16:06:37 -0600
>> >> > Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> How long do you think until this is mature enough we can cut over to it?
>> >> >> There's issues with ubldr on newer u-boot version on some of the platforms
>> >> >> we support. If we could cut over to this, that would be great.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Warner
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 4:37 AM, Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> wrote:
>> >> >>> Hello,
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> I've commited every needed change on our side, for uboot side you will
>> >> >>> need this patch :
>> >> >>> https://people.freebsd.org/~manu/u-boot_201609_efi.diff
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> The only drawback is that you will need to have your partition aligned
>> >> >>> on 512kb boundaries on the mmc.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> I've successfully booted my beaglebone black and most of my Allwinner
>> >> >>> boards with UEFI.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Some part of the uboot patch have started to be upstreamed, for
>> >> >>> the others I need to rework on some part before I upstream them.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Cheers,
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 19:56:54 +1000
>> >> >>> Da Rock <freebsd-arm@herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>> Has anyone tried this option yet? I've heard someone got it going for
>> >> >>>> slack, but I thought it sounded like it might make it easier for running
>> >> >>>> freebsd.
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> I'm currently trying to build a more current u-boot to test it.
>> >> >>>>
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>> > --
>> > Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>
>
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> Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>
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