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Date:      Thu, 1 Nov 2018 02:27:51 +0100
From:      Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com>
To:        greg@unrelenting.technology
Cc:        Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>, freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: MACCHIATObin
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wt., 30 pa=C5=BA 2018 o 23:46 Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology> napisa=
=C5=82(a):
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 12:48 AM, Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > pon., 29 pa=C5=BA 2018 o 21:05 Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology>
> > napisa=C5=82(a):
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:46 PM, Emmanuel Vadot
> >>  <manu@bidouilliste.com> wrote:
> >>  > On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 22:37:59 +0300
> >>  > Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology> wrote:
> >>  >
> >>  >>
> >>  >>
> >>  >>  On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Marcin Wojtas
> >> <mw@semihalf.com>
> >>  >> wrote:
> >>  >>  > sob., 18 sie 2018 o 08:43 Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com>
> >>  >> napisa?(a):
> >>  >>  >>
> >>  >>  >>  sob., 18 sie 2018 o 01:10 Jim Thompson <jim@netgate.com>
> >>  >>  >> napisa?(a):
> >>  >>  >>  >
> >>  >>  >>  > On Aug 17, 2018, at 5:42 PM, Mark Millard via freebsd-arm
> >>  >>  >> <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>  >>  >>  >
> >>  >>  >>  > > Marcin Wojtas mw at semihalf.com wrote on
> >>  >>  >>  > > Fri May 11 07:55:40 UTC 2018 :
> >>  >>  >>  > >
> >>  >>  >>  > >> Short status of the support - last year we enabled
> >> most of
> >>  >> the
> >>  >>  >>  > >> platform functionalities (core support, USB, AHCI,
> >> RTC).
> >>  >> Three
> >>  >>  >> big
> >>  >>  >>  > >> items remained left:
> >>  >>  >>  > >> - PCIE root complex (this should work soon with the
> >> work
> >>  >> done
> >>  >>  >> for
> >>  >>  >>  > >> another SoC, not merged yet)
> >>  >>  >>  > >> - Network PPv2
> >>  >>  >>  > >> - Xenon SD/MMC controller
> >>  >>  >>  > >
> >>  >>  >>  > >
> >>  >>  >>  > > I noticed a check in that deals with that "Xenon"
> >>  >>  >>  > > SD/MMC controller:
> >>  >>  >>  > >
> >>  >>  >>  > > Author: loos
> >>  >>  >>  > > Date: Tue Aug 14 16:33:30 2018
> >>  >>  >>  > > New Revision: 337772
> >>  >>  >>  > > URL:
> >>  >>  >>  > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/337772
> >>  >>  >>
> >>  >>  [?]
> >>  >>  >>  > >
> >>  >>  >>  > > But I've not noticed check-ins for the other of the "big
> >>  >>  >>  > > items" going by. (Though they may have.)
> >>  >>  >>  > >
> >>  >>  >>  > > Care to comment-on/update-the actual status for the
> >>  >>  >>  > > Macchiato.bin(s)?
> >>  >>  >>  >
> >>  >>  >>  >
> >>  >>  >>  > tl;dr: It?s not ?there? yet.
> >>  >>  >>  >
> >>  >>  >>  > Specifics:
> >>  >>  >>  >
> >>  >>  >>  > - loos@ has done a lot of work to get the espresso.bin
> >>  >> working,
> >>  >>  >> and some of this carries over to the 8k/7k.
> >>  >>  >>  > - We have another internal developer working on an EIP-97
> >>  >> driver
> >>  >>  >> for crypto offload.  This should be a foundation for the
> >> EIP-197
> >>  >> in
> >>  >>  >> the 8K.
> >>  >>  >>  > - I know manu@is working on pin controllers and clocks
> >>  >> specific
> >>  >>  >> to Machiatto.bin (80x0/70x0).
> >>  >>  >>  > - Getting the NICs, PCIe, etc working still remains to be
> >>  >> done.
> >>  >>  >>  >
> >>  >>  >>
> >>  >>  >>  About the latter - the NIC is pretty complex, however we
> >>  >> (Semihalf)
> >>  >>  >>  have really huge experience with all its support
> >>  >> implementations and
> >>  >>  >>  the platform itself. I'll put it straightforward - it's
> >> only a
> >>  >>  >> matter
> >>  >>  >>  of development funding, if it's guaranteed, we will do it
> >> with
> >>  >>  >>  pleasure :) As well as the NIC support (DW Synopsys driver
> >> for
> >>  >> DT
> >>  >>  >> and
> >>  >>  >>  verify/improve on pcie-host-generic with ACPI).
> >>  >>  >
> >>  >>  > "As well as PCIE support..." of course.
> >>  >>  >
> >>  >>  > Marcin
> >>  >>
> >>  >>  Hi,
> >>  >>
> >>  >>  I've noticed that people successfully use ACPI-PCIe on the
> >>  >> MACCHIATObin
> >>  >>  with Linux,
> >>  >>  so? has anyone tested FreeBSD pcie-host-generic there?
> >>  >>
> >>  >>  I'm considering buying a MACCHIATObin board to test my drm-next
> >>  >> build
> >>  >>  for aarch64
> >>  >>  ( https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm/pull/89 ), but I'd
> >> like
> >>  >> to
> >>  >>  first know if PCIe actually works :)
> >>  >
> >>  >  I'll will push support for mcbin soon in the tree (with PCI
> >> support).
> >>  >  I don't know what ACPI-PCIe is exactly but I don't see how it can
> >>  > work
> >>  > without a dedicated driver for the armada 8K.
> >>
> >>  dev/pci/pci_host_generic_acpi.c =E2=80=94 generic ECAM PCIe driver.
> >>
> >>  I think ThunderX2 uses it (2018 Cavium copyright in the file),
> >> probably
> >>  Ampere eMAG (haven't seen anything about that here, but the vendor
> >>  lists FreeBSD in their OS compatibility list), should be possible to
> >>  use on the SoftIron Overdrives (NetBSD just added ACPI/aarch64 and
> >> they
> >>  tested on the Overdrive:
> >>  https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=3Dview&id=3D4526 =E2=80=94 but=
 all
> >>  FreeBSD+SoftIron dmesgs on dmesgd.nycbug so far are in FDT mode, not
> >>  ACPI)=E2=80=A6
> >>
> >>  And the EDK2 firmware for the Armada8k does have an ACPI mode=E2=80=
=A6
> >>
> >
> > I confirm - thanks to the initial configuration in UEFI, ACPI tables
> > support PCI, which OS can use with the pure ECAM pci-host-generic
> > driver. Here's also the latest Centos7 bootlog, where you can see it:
> > https://pastebin.com/Aa2NvDnM
> >
> > Marcin
>
> So you haven't tried booting *FreeBSD* in ACPI mode on the 8k yet?
>
> Would be great to see a FreeBSD dmesg from that configuration on
> https://dmesgd.nycbug.org :)
>

Good idea, however I won't be able to do it in coming days. If anyone
would like to try it out before, below is my latest built of EDK2
firmware for the MacchiatoBin board:
https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/edk2-open-platform/wiki/files/=
flash-image-18.09.4.bin

Best regards,
Marcin



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