allwinner/nanopi neo boot issues

Wed Sep 5 12:41:13 UTC 2018

On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 19:10:53 +0200
Jakob Alvermark <jakob at alvermark.net> wrote:

> On 9/4/18 6:16 PM, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 11:21:09 +0300
> > Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>> On 3 Sep 2018, at 11:05, Jakob Alvermark <jakob at alvermark.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 9/3/18 9:01 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 2 Sep 2018, at 19:33, Jakob Alvermark <jakob at alvermark.net <mailto:jakob at alvermark.net>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 9/2/18 5:24 PM, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> >>>>>> On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 17:14:10 +0200
> >>>>>> Jakob Alvermark <jakob at alvermark.net <mailto:jakob at alvermark.net>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 9/1/18 10:46 PM, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> >>>>>>>> On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 15:50:25 +0200
> >>>>>>>> Jakob Alvermark <jakob at alvermark.net <mailto:jakob at alvermark.net>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> On 8/29/18 2:22 PM, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>> On 29 Aug 2018, at 15:17, Jakob Alvermark <jakob at alvermark.net <mailto:jakob at alvermark.net>
> >>>>>>>>>>> <mailto:jakob at alvermark.net <mailto:jakob at alvermark.net>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> On 8/24/18 10:02 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> On 24 Aug 2018, at 09:34, Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il <mailto:danny at cs.huji.ac.il>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> <mailto:danny at cs.huji.ac.il <mailto:danny at cs.huji.ac.il>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> hi,
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> with the latest current r338243 no longer boots via ubldr, efi does
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> but with overlays I have to manually enter the root partition.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> this is where it hangs via ubldr:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Autoboot in 8 seconds, hit [Enter] to boot or any other key to stop
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Loading kernel...
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x8a0950 data=0xae160+0x184520
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> syms=[0x4+0xa6d70+0x4+0x109f17]
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Loading configured modules...
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> /boot/entropy size=0x1000
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> /boot/dtb/sun8i-h3-nanopi-neo.dtb size=0x601b
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Loaded DTB from file 'sun8i-h3-nanopi-neo.dtb'.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Kernel entry at 0x42400180...
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Kernel args: (null)
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> older - r337232 - boots fine,
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> any ideas where to look?
> >>>>>>>>>>>> should have done an update before writing!
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> with the latest (and greatest) all is back to normal!
> >>>>>>>>>>>> so now on to test orange pi one(h3), nanopi neo 2 (h5) and nanopi
> >>>>>>>>>>>> neo a64
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> thanks,
> >>>>>>>>>>>> danny
> >>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> I am trying to get an Orange Pi R1 going, I get the same.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Loading kernel...
> >>>>>>>>>>> /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x89ee40 data=0xae620+0x1f5ba0
> >>>>>>>>>>> syms=[0x4+0xa6d20+0x4+0x109e51]
> >>>>>>>>>>> Loading configured modules...
> >>>>>>>>>>> Could not load one or more modules!
> >>>>>>>>>>> /boot/dtb/sun8i-h2-plus-orangepi-r1.dtb size=0x6333
> >>>>>>>>>>> Loaded DTB from file 'sun8i-h2-plus-orangepi-r1.dtb'.
> >>>>>>>>>>> Kernel entry at 0x42400180...
> >>>>>>>>>>> Kernel args: (null)
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> This is at r338369.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> try booting via efi;
> >>>>>>>>>> make sure to copy /boot/loader.efi to /boot/msdos/EFI/BOOT/bootaa64.efi
> >>>>>>>>>> remove /boot/msdos/boot.scr
> >>>>>>>>>> good luck,
> >>>>>>>>>> danny
> >>>>>>>>> I tried the ALPHA4 snapshot, this happens:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
> >>>>>>>>> switch to partitions #0, OK
> >>>>>>>>> mmc0 is current device
> >>>>>>>>> Scanning mmc 0:1...
> >>>>>>>>> 25395 bytes read in 4 ms (6.1 MiB/s)
> >>>>>>>>> Found EFI removable media binary efi/boot/bootarm.efi
> >>>>>>>>> Scanning disks on usb...
> >>>>>>>>> Disk usb0 not ready
> >>>>>>>>> Disk usb1 not ready
> >>>>>>>>> Disk usb2 not ready
> >>>>>>>>> Disk usb3 not ready
> >>>>>>>>> Scanning disks on mmc...
> >>>>>>>>> MMC Device 1 not found
> >>>>>>>>> MMC Device 2 not found
> >>>>>>>>> MMC Device 3 not found
> >>>>>>>>> Found 3 disks
> >>>>>>>>> 508704 bytes read in 26 ms (18.7 MiB/s)
> >>>>>>>>> ## Starting EFI application at 42000000 ...
> >>>>>>>>> Consoles: EFI console
> >>>>>>>>> failed to allocate staging area: 14
> >>>>>>>>> failed to allocate staging area
> >>>>>>>>> ## Application terminated, r = 5
> >   So this is weird, it mean that loader.efi couldn't allocate some pages.
> >
> >   I've just tried ALPHA4 on my orangepi-zero (closer board that I have),
> > I've just overwritten u-boot using the port we have for it and the
> > board boots just fine.
> >   How did you generate the image for this one ?
> >   Could you test with my method ? Thanks.
> 
> Which image should I use? For ALPHA3 there is a GENERICSD image, but not 
> for ALPHA4.

 Build fail due to some (maybe) race condition.

> I just tried with 
> FreeBSD-12.0-ALPHA4-arm-armv7-CUBIEBOARD2-20180831-r338410.img

 Any of the armv7 image will do, they are all the same except the
u-boot part.

> dd the u-boot from the port (latest one, u-boot-orangepi_r1-2018.07_3)
> 
> Put the SD card in and this happened:
> 
> Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
> switch to partitions #0, OK
> mmc0 is current device
> Scanning mmc 0:1...
> 25395 bytes read in 3 ms (8.1 MiB/s)
> Found EFI removable media binary efi/boot/bootarm.efi
> Scanning disks on usb...
> Disk usb0 not ready
> Disk usb1 not ready
> Disk usb2 not ready
> Disk usb3 not ready
> Scanning disks on mmc...
> MMC Device 1 not found
> MMC Device 2 not found
> MMC Device 3 not found
> Found 3 disks
> 508704 bytes read in 25 ms (19.4 MiB/s)
> ## Starting EFI application at 42000000 ...
> Consoles: EFI console
> failed to allocate staging area: 14
> failed to allocate staging area
> ## Application terminated, r = 5
> EFI LOAD FAILED: continuing...
> 
> 

 Could you try to decrease EFI_STAGING_SIZE to 32 in
stand/efi/loader/copy.c ?
 We currently request 64M for the staging size which seems to be too
big for this board.
 U-Boot cannot find enough memory it seems,
https://elixir.bootlin.com/u-boot/latest/source/lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c#L300

-- 
Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at freebsd.org>