Re: Rock64, U-Boot 2024.01, and direct USB3 booting: part way there [other USB ports too]

From: Mark Millard <marklmi_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 01:00:14 UTC
On Jan 20, 2024, at 15:37, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:

> U-Boot 2024.01 handles the USB3 port. This means I've
> gotten the boot sequence to load the kernel from the
> USB3 boot media.
> 
> The details:
> 
> U-Boot 2024.01 is on media that the internal code can
> handle for finding, loading, and starting U-Boot. In
> my context, this is a removable E.MMC device. Nothing
> else on this device is needed. EFI/ must not be
> present. dtb/ should(/must?) not be present.
> 
> The USB3 media I'm using looks like it could use a
> usb_pgood_delay 2000 (or some such) but I've a powered
> USB3 hub that tends to lead to avoiding such a setting
> being required, and I'm using that so far.
> 
> The msdosfs is on the USB3 media and has the
> EFI/BOOT/bootaa64.efi . It was copied from the
> USF /boot/loader.efi .
> 
> The msdosfs also has a dtb/rockchip/rk3328-rock64.dtb
> for U-Boot to find and use. It was copied over from
> the UFS /boot/dtb/rockchip/rk3328-rock64.dtb .
> 
> (I ignore here also having materials for a RPi* boot.)
> 
> On plugging in power, the boot sequence finds, loads,
> and starts the FreeBSD kernel based on the the UFS
> file system on the USB3 media.
> 
> But it does not mount from ufs:/dev/ufs/rootfs .
> boot -v reports the following. I unsure if the
> "regulator: shutting down . . ." notices indicate
> something has been disabled that would be needed.
> There are no "Root mount waiting for:" notices.
> There is a "Unresolved linked clock found: usb480m_phy"
> notice.
> 
> . . .
> usbus1: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
> usbus2: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
> usbus3: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
> usbus4: 5.0Gbps Super Speed USB v3.0
> . . .
> ugen4.1: <Synopsys XHCI root HUB> at usbus4
> uhub3 on usbus4
> uhub3: <Synopsys XHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 3.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus4
> . . .
> Release APs...done
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/rootfs [rw]...
> GEOM: new disk mmcsd0
> TCP_ratelimit: Is now initialized
> GEOM: new disk mmcsd0boot0
> Unresolved linked clock found: hdmi_phy
> GEOM: new disk mmcsd0boot1
> Unresolved linked clock found: usb480m_phy
> mmcsd0: Error indicated: 4 Failed
> regulator: shutting down unused regulators
> regulator: shutting down vcc_sd... busy
> uhub1: 1 port with 1 removable, self powered
> uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> uhub0: 1 port with 1 removable, self powered
> uhub2: 1 port with 1 removable, self powered
> ugen4.2: <vendor 0x05e3 product 0x0610> at usbus4
> uhub4 on uhub3
> uhub4: <vendor 0x05e3 product 0x0610, class 9/0, rev 2.10/92.10, addr 1> on usbus4
> uhub4: MTT enabled
> uhub4: 4 ports with 1 removable, self powered
> ugen4.3: <vendor 0x05e3 product 0x0616> at usbus4
> uhub5 on uhub3
> uhub5: <vendor 0x05e3 product 0x0616, class 9/0, rev 3.00/92.10, addr 2> on usbus4
> uhub5: 4 ports with 1 removable, self powered
> ugen4.4: <OWC Envoy Pro mini> at usbus4
> umass0 on uhub5
> umass0: <OWC Envoy Pro mini, class 0/0, rev 3.00/1.00, addr 3> on usbus4
> umass0:0:0: Attached to scbus0
> pass0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
> pass0: <OWC Envoy Pro mini 0> Fixed Direct Access SPC-4 SCSI device
> pass0: Serial Number REDACTED
> pass0: 400.000MB/s transfers
> da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <OWC Envoy Pro mini 0> Fixed Direct Access SPC-4 SCSI device
> da0: Serial Number REDACTED
> da0: 400.000MB/s transfers
> da0: 228936MB (468862128 512 byte sectors)
> da0: quirks=0x2<NO_6_BYTE>
> da0: Delete methods: <NONE(*),ZERO>
> 
> And there is no more output.
> 
> The same media boots the RPi4B tried just fine.
> Via an EDK2 microsd card also being involved, it
> boots the RPi5 just fine as well.
> 

I tried booting with the USB media in one of the
other USB ports instead. That gets the same sort
of result: no "mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/rootfs"
but the "da0:" lines do show up as the last of the
output.


===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com