Cubieboard2 with custom bootloader

Mihai Carabas mihai.carabas at gmail.com
Mon Dec 12 15:07:21 UTC 2016


Hi Manu,

Thank you very much for the patches. I will talk with Alex (at CC) at we
will come with an answer.

Thank you,
Mihai

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 16:55:13 +0200
> Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > We are working on bhyve hypervisor for ARM. We are trying to boot
> FreeBSD11
> > on a Cubieboard2 using a compiled u-boot from sources and it gets stuck
> > after loading the FreeBSD kernel.
> >
> > We needed to compile u-boot from sources, because the precompiled one
> from
> > packages exits hypervisor mode and falls back to supervisor mode. We
> don't
> > have a JTAG to debug the problem.
> >
> > Did anyone manage to boot FreeBSD11 on Cubie2 from a compiled from
> sources
> > u-boot?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Mihai Carabas
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>  Hi, multiple questions :
>
>  - How did you compile uboot ?
>  - Did you try booting kernel directly or ubldr first ?
>  - Where do it get stuck exactly ?
>
>  You can find all my u-boot patches here :
> https://people.freebsd.org/~manu/uboot/
>
>  Those patches applies on u-boot-2016.11 and it's everything you need
> to have a U-Boot for Allwinner device (with some extras that you won't
> need too).
>
> --
> Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at freebsd.org>
>


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