rpi4b main-n245392-8423f5d4c12 won't boot due to microsd timeout

[Mark Millard]

On 2021-Mar-12, at 15:36, tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:59:09AM -0800, Mark Millard wrote:
>> 
>> FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20210311-15565e0a217-257277.img.xz
> 
> I saved the working kernel.old image and wrote
> FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20210311-15565e0a217-257277.img
> to the microsd, added latest start4.elf and fixup4.dat and u-boot and
> confirm this won't boot with usb stuff attached, which I think is a
> different issue?

Different issue and a commit of the intended fix has
been made for the USB storage device handling problem
in the FreeBSD kernel.

> Consoles: EFI console      Reading loader env vars from /efi/freebsd/loader.env
>    Setting currdev to disk0p1:
>    FreeBSD/arm64 EFI loader, Revision 1.1
>    (Thu Mar 11 07:29:18 UTC 2021 root at releng1.nyi.freebsd.org)
> 
>       Command line arguments: loader.efi
>       Image base: 0x39df7000
>       EFI version: 2.80
>       EFI Firmware: Das U-Boot (rev 8224.4096)
>       Console: comconsole (0)
> 
> root at generic:/boot/msdos # strings start4.elf | grep VC_BUILD_ID_
> VC_BUILD_ID_USER: dom
> VC_BUILD_ID_TIME: 12:10:40
> VC_BUILD_ID_VARIANT: start
> VC_BUILD_ID_TIME: Feb 25 2021
> VC_BUILD_ID_BRANCH: bcm2711_2
> VC_BUILD_ID_HOSTNAME: buildbot
> VC_BUILD_ID_PLATFORM: raspberrypi_linux
> VC_BUILD_ID_VERSION: 564e5f9b852b23a330b1764bcf0b2d022a20afd0 (clean)
> 
> I'm going to try building a no-debug kernel next

You could potentially build code with the intended
fix in it -- either debug or non-debug.

> thanks for your help. I'll close the bugzilla ticket.

You are welcome.

The Continuous Integration builds involving the
committed fix for the USB storage device panic by
the debug kernels have started (first builds for
each platform might be done). For aarch64:

https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/main/7381bbee29df959e88ec59866cf2878263e7f3b2/arm64/aarch64/

has such materials already, including kernel.txz and
kernel-dbg.txz . I mounted the ufs file system on the
microsd card that was previously initialized from:

FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20210311-15565e0a217-257277.img.xz

I mounted that as /mnt and updated the media via:

# tar -xpf kernel.txz -C /mnt/
# tar -xpf kernel-dbg.txt -C /mnt/

I then dismounted. So I now have microsd card media
with a debug main kernel that handles USB storage
media again on the RPi4B 8 GiByte and such --until
the next normal snapshot that happens to be in
working order from which I could update that media
again.

One property of:

https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/

materials is that they stick around for about a year.
Another is that for any specific platform, only some
commits are built. Which commits are built can vary
by platform.

(I do not normally use debug builds. But I'm updating
the non-debug ones to be based on a commit that spans
the fix as well.)


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