FreeBSD bootup freeze when running it on BeagleBone Black

[John-Mark Gurney]

Udit agarwal wrote this message on Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 16:19 +0530:
> I am trying to build FreeBSD 12.0 on BeagleBone Black. However, during
> kernel initialization it's getting freeze. I took the image from here
> <http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm/armv7/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/>
> .Here's the error log:

Just a heads up, I'm getting the same thing, I also ran all three latest
snapshots and seeing similar behavior:
FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #0 r330034: Mon Feb 26 23:44:48 UTC 2018
    root at releng3.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/arm.armv7/sys/GENERIC arm
[...]
cpswss0: <3-port Switch Ethernet Subsystem> mem 0x4a100000-0x4a1007ff,0x4a101200-0x4a1012ff irq 38,39,40,41 on simplebus0
cpswss0: CPSW SS Version 1.12 (0)
cpswss0: Initial queue size TX=128 RX=384
cpswss0: Unable to fill RX queue
cpsw0: <Ethernet Switch Port> on cpswss0
miibus0: <MII bus> on cpsw0
smscphy0: <SMC LAN8710A 10/100 interface> PHY 0 on miibus0
smscphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
cpsw0: Ethernet address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
cryptosoft0: <software crypto>
usbus0: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
usbus1: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
<hangs>

and:
FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #0 r330606: Wed Mar  7 19:26:58 UTC 2018
    root at releng3.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/arm.armv7/sys/GENERIC arm
[...]
cpswss0: <3-port Switch Ethernet Subsystem> mem 0x4a100000-0x4a1007ff,0x4a101200-0x4a1012ff irq 38,39,40,41 on simplebus0
cpswss0: CPSW SS Version 1.12 (0)
cpswss0: Initial queue size TX=128 RX=384
cpswss0: Unable to fill RX queue
cpsw0: <Ethernet Switch Port> on cpswss0
<hangs>

and:
FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #0 r331001: Thu Mar 15 18:47:28 UTC 2018
    root at releng3.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/arm.armv7/sys/GENERIC arm
[...]
cpswss0: <3-port Switch Ethernet Subsystem> mem 0x4a100000-0x4a1007ff,0x4a101200-0x4a1012ff irq 38,39,40,41 on simplebus0
cpswss0: CPSW SS Version 1.12 (0)
cpswss0: Initial queue size TX=128 RX=384
cpswss0: Unable to fill RX queue
cpsw0: <Ethernet Switch Port> on cpswss0
<hangs>

So, it looks like Feb 26th got a bit farther, but it still hung.

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