MACCHIATObin

[Greg V]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com> wrote:
> sob., 18 sie 2018 o 08:43 Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com> napisał(a):
>> 
>>  sob., 18 sie 2018 o 01:10 Jim Thompson <jim at netgate.com> 
>> napisał(a):
>>  >
>>  > On Aug 17, 2018, at 5:42 PM, Mark Millard via freebsd-arm 
>> <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>  >
>>  > > Marcin Wojtas mw at semihalf.com wrote on
>>  > > Fri May 11 07:55:40 UTC 2018 :
>>  > >
>>  > >> Short status of the support - last year we enabled most of the
>>  > >> platform functionalities (core support, USB, AHCI, RTC). Three 
>> big
>>  > >> items remained left:
>>  > >> - PCIE root complex (this should work soon with the work done 
>> for
>>  > >> another SoC, not merged yet)
>>  > >> - Network PPv2
>>  > >> - Xenon SD/MMC controller
>>  > >
>>  > >
>>  > > I noticed a check in that deals with that "Xenon"
>>  > > SD/MMC controller:
>>  > >
>>  > > Author: loos
>>  > > Date: Tue Aug 14 16:33:30 2018
>>  > > New Revision: 337772
>>  > > URL:
>>  > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/337772
>> 
[…]
>>  > >
>>  > > But I've not noticed check-ins for the other of the "big
>>  > > items" going by. (Though they may have.)
>>  > >
>>  > > Care to comment-on/update-the actual status for the
>>  > > Macchiato.bin(s)?
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > tl;dr: It’s not ‘there’ yet.
>>  >
>>  > Specifics:
>>  >
>>  > - loos@ has done a lot of work to get the espresso.bin working, 
>> and some of this carries over to the 8k/7k.
>>  > - We have another internal developer working on an EIP-97 driver 
>> for crypto offload.  This should be a foundation for the EIP-197 in 
>> the 8K.
>>  > - I know manu at is working on pin controllers and clocks specific 
>> to Machiatto.bin (80x0/70x0).
>>  > - Getting the NICs, PCIe, etc working still remains to be done.
>>  >
>> 
>>  About the latter - the NIC is pretty complex, however we (Semihalf)
>>  have really huge experience with all its support implementations and
>>  the platform itself. I'll put it straightforward - it's only a 
>> matter
>>  of development funding, if it's guaranteed, we will do it with
>>  pleasure :) As well as the NIC support (DW Synopsys driver for DT 
>> and
>>  verify/improve on pcie-host-generic with ACPI).
> 
> "As well as PCIE support..." of course.
> 
> Marcin

Hi,

I've noticed that people successfully use ACPI-PCIe on the MACCHIATObin 
with Linux,
so… has anyone tested FreeBSD pcie-host-generic there?

I'm considering buying a MACCHIATObin board to test my drm-next build 
for aarch64
( https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm/pull/89 ), but I'd like to 
first know if PCIe actually works :)

Also, about the NIC — is the 1GbE port attached to the same 
new/complex NIC as the 10GbE ports?