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Date:      Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:20:45 -0800
From:      bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>
To:        Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>
Subject:   Re: Showstoppers for RPI3
Message-ID:  <20200226052045.GA79939@www.zefox.net>
In-Reply-To: <CACNAnaEiv5NZZz%2BxfETkhSZ-zbjZ3Ya6z7pyteheP4zj3EK1Gg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 07:57:00PM -0600, Kyle Evans wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 5:05 PM Mark Millard via freebsd-arm
> <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > If you are seeing vm.pfault_oom_attempts="-1" fail to work on or
> > after head -r357253 (from 2020-Jan-29) that is likely new news.

Haven't checked yet, but it sounds like post-r357253 should be ok.
Alas, the frying pan is cooling but the fire is still hot:
 
> > The armstub8-gic.bin/armstub8.bin RAM not being reported to the
> > kernel as RAM to avoid touching is a known problem for aarch64
> > RPi*'s. But, as far as I know, no one has indicated that they are
> > working on getting such RPi*'s to well report armstub8*.bin RAM
> > to the kernel --or that they are planning to do so.
> >
> 

> I've forwarded your patch on to some relevant U-Boot folk to try and
> get some feedback from them, since they likely understand the process
> better -- I would suspect reserving the second page in U-Boot as well
> is the proper solution.

Sounds like that fix is not yet on the horizon. 

Would explicit bug reports be helpful?

Thanks!

bob prohaska




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