Hummingboard boot hangs in -HEAD

[Russell Haley]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-02-18 at 14:42 -0800, Russell Haley wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > The hummingboard (really, all imx6 systems) problem showed up
>> > between
>> >  r295351 - r295543, but I haven't had time to narrow it down more
>> > than
>> > that.
>> >
>> > Sata has never worked on imx6.  I had limited success with it 2
>> > years
>> > ago (it kinda worked but there was data corruption), ran out of
>> > time
>> > and set it aside, and have never gotten back to the driver to
>> > finish
>> > getting it working.
>> >
>> > -- Ian
>>
>> Ian:
>> Thanks for clarification.
>>
>> To the general mailing list:
>> I would like to request additional help to resolve the sata issue on
>> imx6. I have done a preliminary reading of the CAM code and have
>> looked at the change made to the ahci driver late last year for arm
>> support. I have inspected the dts files. I have done some poking a
>> while back into what is loaded and not loaded. However, I do not know
>> how to properly debug a CAM driver (or any kernel level code) or use
>> the debug tools.
>>
>> My personal objective is to become a FreeBSD driver maintainer, and I
>> have been tracking this issue for a while, but I have stalled out at
>> this point. I need a higher level of support then the mailing list
>> provides to become productive (at least initially). At this point
>> learning how to debug kernel devices by myself is outside of my
>> scope.
>> However, if someone is willing to Skype or chat/email with more
>> directed support I will pick this project back up. I would love to
>> earn a commit bit eventually. Please send me a message if you can
>> help.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Russ
>>
>
> What you need is the #bsdmips irc channel on efnet.  Don't let the mips
> in the name fool you, all the freebsd-arm developers hang out there.
>  Just drop in and start asking questions (and be patient with the fact
> that although there are 80 people hanging out there, most of us are
> either asleep or at $work depending on continent, and sometimes answers
> come long after the question).
>
> -- Ian

Thanks, this is precisely what I needed to know.

Russ