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Date:      Sun, 06 Apr 2014 14:10:52 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andreas Tobler <andreast-list@fgznet.ch>
Cc:        "'freebsd-arm@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: MARVELL BOARD: RD-88F6281A -CURRENT
Message-ID:  <1396815052.81853.346.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
In-Reply-To: <5341AE1C.4040207@fgznet.ch>
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On Sun, 2014-04-06 at 21:42 +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote:
> On 06.04.14 00:31, Ian Lepore wrote:
> > On Sat, 2014-04-05 at 23:53 +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote:
> >> On 05.04.14 23:10, Ian Lepore wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 2014-04-05 at 22:54 +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote:
> >>>> Hi all,
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm very new to arm hardware, but not to FreeBSD.
> >>>> I got my hands on a broken (software like) ix2-200 Iomega StorCenter. A
> >>>> few wires and a screen session allowed me to dive into it and I tried to
> >>>> boot -CURRENT on it. Below where I end.
> >>>>
> >>>> The config I used is the DB-88F6XXX with enabling the INVARIANTS etc.
> >>>> The board itself identifies as the subject says. It has this:
> >>>> Soc: 88F6281 A0CPU running @ 1000Mhz L2 running @ 333Mhz
> >>>> SysClock = 333Mhz , TClock = 200Mhz
> >>>> DRAM (DDR2) CAS Latency = 5 tRP = 5 tRAS = 18 tRCD=6
> >>>> DRAM CS[0] base 0x00000000   size 256
> >>>>
> >>>> Has anyone a hint or an idea where to start debugging this?
> >>>>
> >>>> TIA,
> >>>> Andreas
> >>>>
> >>>> [...]
> >>>
> >>> Easy things first, I guess... in sys/boot/fdt/dts/db88f6281.dts I see 
> >>>
> >>> 		reg = <0x0 0x20000000>;		// 512M at 0x0
> >>>
> >>> Try cutting that in half and rebuilding the kernel.
> >>
> >> Yep, simple thing! As said, new to the hardware :)
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot.
> >>
> >> Sure, now I 'hang' in an other area.
> >>
> >> mge0: <Marvell Gigabit Ethernet controller> mem 0x72000-0x73fff irq
> >> 12,13,14,11,46 on simplebus0
> >> mge0: Ethernet address: 00:d0:b8:1e:3b:df
> >> mge0: attaching PHYs failed
> >> --> hangs
> >> According to the u-boot env I have two eth's and only the second is
> >> wired and used.
> >>
> >> From u-boot:
> >> Net:   egiga0, egiga1 [PRIME]
> >>
> >> Now my questions, how do I enable verbose boot? On PowerPC I know I have
> >> to do it in boot/loader.conf, here too?
> >>
> >> I guess my hardware is different from an eval board, so I expect I'd
> >> need a customized dts, no? If so, how do I get the information out of
> >> the u-boot?
> >> Again, thx a lot!
> >> Andreas
> > 
> > You're probably not even using loader(8) but rather launching the kernel
> > directly (only newer arm systems and newer versions of u-boot use
> > loader).  That means things like tunables and bootverbose have to be
> > hacked into the kernel, at least for now to make some progress.  The
> > initarm_early_init() routine in arm/mv/mv_machdep.c is a good place to
> > throw in a bootverbose=1.
> 
> Ok. I did it in sys/kern/init_main.c
> 
> > For disabling egiga0 just add status="disabled" to its entry in the dts
> > file.  Have a look at the dreamplug dts files for an example of setting
> > up egiga1, but I'm not sure everything will be exactly the same.  You
> > may need to transplant the phy0 entry from egiga0 into egiga1 for that
> > box.
> 
> Good start, thanks.
> 
> > The 'bdinfo' command in u-boot sometimes shows lots of good info,
> > sometimes not so much.
> 
> Hm, this command is not available in my env.
> Anyway, I figured to play with the regs in the enet dts section and I
> managed to get it up. Unfortunately I don't get any dhcp requests to the
> server, so no ack can be given. I'll play around.
> 
> Sending DHCP Discover packet from interface mge0 (00:d0:b8:1e:3b:df)
> ....
> DHCP/BOOTP timeout for server 255.255.255.255
> ....
> 
> Thanks again!
> Andreas

I just realized that there's likely to be dts source for that box in
linux, and sure enough:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-iomega_ix2_200.dts

There should be a lot of good clues in there, although we're not quite
so compatible that you can necessarily just paste linux dts code into
our dts files.

-- Ian





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