Problems with Head on RaspberryPi

[Ralf Wenk]

On Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:23:42 +0800, Alie Tan <alie at affle.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Ralf Wenk <iz-rpi03 at hs-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:46:41 +0200, Michael Tuexen <tuexen at freebsd.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > I just confirmed that without INVARIANTS and INVARIANT_SUPPORT a r252159
> > with the vmem.diff patches from Jeff Roberson applied boots also on the
> > same R-Pi Model B.
> >
> Are you able to compile any pkg on it?

Yes, it did compile bash last night.

Just to mention it again, I use EABI and gcc 4.2.1 as compiler.

Ralf


> > > So is someone working on the uma_dbg stuff?
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > > Michael
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >> Best regards
> > > >> Michael
> > > >>>
> > > >
> > > > - Diane
> > > > --
> > > > - db at FreeBSD.org db at db.net http://www.db.net/~db