Problems with Head on RaspberryPi

[Michael Tuexen]

On Jun 27, 2013, at 12:23 AM, Diane Bruce <db at db.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 08:37:57PM +0200, Michael Tuexen wrote:
>> On Jun 26, 2013, at 7:39 PM, Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo at bluezbox.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2013-06-26, at 10:22 AM, Michael Tuexen <tuexen at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Dear all,
>>>> 
>>>> I have build FreeBSD using the script from
>>>> https://github.com/daveish/freebsd-arm-tools
>>>> for a couple of weeks and it worked fine. However,
>>>> doing this within the last days, compilation and
>>>> installation works, but the Raspberry Pi doesn't
>>>> boot. After Starting kernel with NULL args
>>>> or so, it doesn't show anything else. Normally
>>>> the FreeBSD boot messages would appear. Does anyone
>>>> else also see this? Any idea how to get some
>>>> debug output out of the Raspberry Pi?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Try disabling INVARIANTS options in the kernel. It seems
>>> new code in uma_dbg performs atomic ops on the 
>>> allocated memory and if memory has been remapped as 
>>> non-cached it causes exception. 
>> OK. I'll try and report. It may take 24 hours...
> 
> I'm sorry to report it does not work.
Building r252255 without INVARIANTS and INVARIANT_SUPPORT
results in an image which boots completely on a R-Pi Model B with
512 MB RAM.

So is someone working on the uma_dbg stuff?

Best regards
Michael
> 
>> 
>> Best regards
>> Michael
>>> 
> 
> - Diane
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