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Date:      Tue, 19 May 2020 17:59:36 -0700
From:      Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
To:        mack@macktronics.com, freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: rpi4 headless experience
Message-ID:  <AE9C0FB2-55EC-4096-A654-9FD8388B4052@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <DBC7D277-D2B9-4B30-A1BE-7362F7AC54EB@yahoo.com>
References:  <DBC7D277-D2B9-4B30-A1BE-7362F7AC54EB@yahoo.com>

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On 2020-May-19, at 17:42, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dan Mack mack at macktronics.com wrote on
> Tue May 19 22:12:47 UTC 2020 :
>=20
>> Thanks for you report info, especially the fact that you are having =
it see=20
>> all your memory.  Perhaps this is an issue with different revisions =
of the=20
>> rpi4 ?   I have a pre-Nov 2019 rpi4-4GB.
>=20
> The 2 RPi4B's that I have access to are 4 GiByte models and
> predate Nov-2019 for when they arrived.
>=20
> Presuming an installation based on sysutils/u-boot-rpi4
> head -r528547 or later for reliable booting, the detection
> has always indicated the 4 GiByte size. (The unreliable
> booting also did as I remember: the problems were in
> other aspects. But I avoid depending on unreliable
> contexts for judgments.) u-boot-rpi4 -r528547 is from
> 2020-Mar-16.
>=20
> If I had to guess, you really tested a 1 GiByte RPi4. I
> do not remember anyone previously reporting such an
> incorrect memory size. (Not that there appear to be
> many having used FreeBSD on a RPI4B at this point.)
>=20
> One of the RPi4B is currently running head -r360311 :
>=20
> hw.physmem: 4127358976
> hw.usermem: 4053913600
> hw.realmem: 4148047872
>=20
> RPi4B development is in the early stages, with not much
> time spent on it as far as I can tell. It may be that
> uefi/ACPI support may be how more ends up working at
> some point. (Unclear path for progress: other things
> are taking the time of those with the skill set for
> the development but there is an independent uefi/ACPI
> effort going on that may someday help.)

Clearly Robert Crowston's separate notes indicate more
folks are working on getting more going for the RPi4 than
I thought of when I wrote the above. I did not mean the
above to slight anyone's skills. It is just that, without
the reminder, the activity did not come to mind.

> Things like USB not working and the processor clock rate
> being well below normal for an RPi4B are expected at
> this stage.
>=20
>> And I can confirm that reboot doesn't work, on my system, it does =
this:
>=20
> Known at this stage. Same here.
>=20
>> root at generic
>> :~ # reboot
>> May 14 12:28:56 generic reboot[1642]: rebooted by root
>> May 14 12:28:56 generic syslogd: exiting on signal 15
>> Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop... done
>> Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop...
>> Syncing disks, vnodes remaining... 2 0 0 done
>> Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system thread `bufdaemon' to stop... =
done
>> Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system thread `bufspacedaemon-0' to =
stop...=20
>> done
>> All buffers synced.
>> lock order reversal:
>>  1st 0xfffffd00012809f0 ufs (ufs) @ =
/usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_mount.c:1631
>>  2nd 0xfffffd00012f5438 devfs (devfs) @=20
>> /usr/src/sys/fs/msdosfs/msdosfs_vfsops.c:945
>> stack backtrace:
>> #0 0xffff00000047f440 at witness_debugger+0x64
>> #1 0xffff0000003e7794 at lockmgr_lock_flags+0x1d8
>> #2 0xffff0000004fa3c0 at _vn_lock+0x54
>> #3 0xffff0000002e5508 at msdosfs_sync+0x1a8
>> #4 0xffff0000002e512c at msdosfs_unmount+0x30
>> #5 0xffff0000004de514 at dounmount+0x430
>> #6 0xffff0000004e9034 at vfs_unmountall+0x8c
>> #7 0xffff0000004c4844 at bufshutdown+0x280
>> #8 0xffff000000415ea4 at kern_reboot+0x238
>> #9 0xffff000000415c00 at sys_reboot+0x338
>> #10 0xffff000000775a00 at do_el0_sync+0x3f8
>> #11 0xffff000000759224 at handle_el0_sync+0x90
>> Uptime: 1h49m6s
>=20
> The lock order reversal is normal and not limited
> to arm families: all platforms used with typical
> debug kernels report such. Non-debug kernels do
> not report the reversal because the checks are
> turned off.




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