MACCHIATObin

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 22:37:59 +0300
Greg V <greg at unrelenting.technology> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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> napisa?(a):
> >> 
> >>  sob., 18 sie 2018 o 01:10 Jim Thompson <jim at netgate.com> 
> >> napisa?(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 :)

 I'll will push support for mcbin soon in the tree (with PCI support).
 I don't know what ACPI-PCIe is exactly but I don't see how it can work
without a dedicated driver for the armada 8K.

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

 Yes.

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Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at freebsd.org>