allwinner/nanopi neo boot issues

Wed Sep 5 15:25:00 UTC 2018

On 9/5/18 2:41 PM, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 19:10:53 +0200
> Jakob Alvermark <jakob at alvermark.net> wrote:
>
>> On 9/4/18 6:16 PM, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
>>> On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 11:21:09 +0300
>>> Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> On 3 Sep 2018, at 11:05, Jakob Alvermark <jakob at alvermark.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 9/3/18 9:01 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2 Sep 2018, at 19:33, Jakob Alvermark <jakob at alvermark.net <mailto:jakob at alvermark.net>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 9/2/18 5:24 PM, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 17:14:10 +0200
>>>>>>>> Jakob Alvermark <jakob at alvermark.net <mailto:jakob at alvermark.net>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 9/1/18 10:46 PM, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 15:50:25 +0200
>>>>>>>>>> Jakob Alvermark <jakob at alvermark.net <mailto:jakob at alvermark.net>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On 8/29/18 2:22 PM, Daniel Braniss wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 29 Aug 2018, at 15:17, Jakob Alvermark <jakob at alvermark.net <mailto:jakob at alvermark.net>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> <mailto:jakob at alvermark.net <mailto:jakob at alvermark.net>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 8/24/18 10:02 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 24 Aug 2018, at 09:34, Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il <mailto:danny at cs.huji.ac.il>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <mailto:danny at cs.huji.ac.il <mailto:danny at cs.huji.ac.il>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hi,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with the latest current r338243 no longer boots via ubldr, efi does
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> but with overlays I have to manually enter the root partition.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> this is where it hangs via ubldr:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Autoboot in 8 seconds, hit [Enter] to boot or any other key to stop
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Loading kernel...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x8a0950 data=0xae160+0x184520
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> syms=[0x4+0xa6d70+0x4+0x109f17]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Loading configured modules...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> /boot/entropy size=0x1000
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> /boot/dtb/sun8i-h3-nanopi-neo.dtb size=0x601b
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Loaded DTB from file 'sun8i-h3-nanopi-neo.dtb'.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Kernel entry at 0x42400180...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Kernel args: (null)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> older - r337232 - boots fine,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> any ideas where to look?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> should have done an update before writing!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with the latest (and greatest) all is back to normal!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> so now on to test orange pi one(h3), nanopi neo 2 (h5) and nanopi
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> neo a64
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> danny
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I am trying to get an Orange Pi R1 going, I get the same.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Loading kernel...
>>>>>>>>>>>>> /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x89ee40 data=0xae620+0x1f5ba0
>>>>>>>>>>>>> syms=[0x4+0xa6d20+0x4+0x109e51]
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Loading configured modules...
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Could not load one or more modules!
>>>>>>>>>>>>> /boot/dtb/sun8i-h2-plus-orangepi-r1.dtb size=0x6333
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Loaded DTB from file 'sun8i-h2-plus-orangepi-r1.dtb'.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Kernel entry at 0x42400180...
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Kernel args: (null)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> This is at r338369.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> try booting via efi;
>>>>>>>>>>>> make sure to copy /boot/loader.efi to /boot/msdos/EFI/BOOT/bootaa64.efi
>>>>>>>>>>>> remove /boot/msdos/boot.scr
>>>>>>>>>>>> good luck,
>>>>>>>>>>>> danny
>>>>>>>>>>> I tried the ALPHA4 snapshot, this happens:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
>>>>>>>>>>> switch to partitions #0, OK
>>>>>>>>>>> mmc0 is current device
>>>>>>>>>>> Scanning mmc 0:1...
>>>>>>>>>>> 25395 bytes read in 4 ms (6.1 MiB/s)
>>>>>>>>>>> Found EFI removable media binary efi/boot/bootarm.efi
>>>>>>>>>>> Scanning disks on usb...
>>>>>>>>>>> Disk usb0 not ready
>>>>>>>>>>> Disk usb1 not ready
>>>>>>>>>>> Disk usb2 not ready
>>>>>>>>>>> Disk usb3 not ready
>>>>>>>>>>> Scanning disks on mmc...
>>>>>>>>>>> MMC Device 1 not found
>>>>>>>>>>> MMC Device 2 not found
>>>>>>>>>>> MMC Device 3 not found
>>>>>>>>>>> Found 3 disks
>>>>>>>>>>> 508704 bytes read in 26 ms (18.7 MiB/s)
>>>>>>>>>>> ## Starting EFI application at 42000000 ...
>>>>>>>>>>> Consoles: EFI console
>>>>>>>>>>> failed to allocate staging area: 14
>>>>>>>>>>> failed to allocate staging area
>>>>>>>>>>> ## Application terminated, r = 5
>>>    So this is weird, it mean that loader.efi couldn't allocate some pages.
>>>
>>>    I've just tried ALPHA4 on my orangepi-zero (closer board that I have),
>>> I've just overwritten u-boot using the port we have for it and the
>>> board boots just fine.
>>>    How did you generate the image for this one ?
>>>    Could you test with my method ? Thanks.
>> Which image should I use? For ALPHA3 there is a GENERICSD image, but not
>> for ALPHA4.
>   Build fail due to some (maybe) race condition.
>
>> I just tried with
>> FreeBSD-12.0-ALPHA4-arm-armv7-CUBIEBOARD2-20180831-r338410.img
>   Any of the armv7 image will do, they are all the same except the
> u-boot part.
>
>> dd the u-boot from the port (latest one, u-boot-orangepi_r1-2018.07_3)
>>
>> Put the SD card in and this happened:
>>
>> Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
>> switch to partitions #0, OK
>> mmc0 is current device
>> Scanning mmc 0:1...
>> 25395 bytes read in 3 ms (8.1 MiB/s)
>> Found EFI removable media binary efi/boot/bootarm.efi
>> Scanning disks on usb...
>> Disk usb0 not ready
>> Disk usb1 not ready
>> Disk usb2 not ready
>> Disk usb3 not ready
>> Scanning disks on mmc...
>> MMC Device 1 not found
>> MMC Device 2 not found
>> MMC Device 3 not found
>> Found 3 disks
>> 508704 bytes read in 25 ms (19.4 MiB/s)
>> ## Starting EFI application at 42000000 ...
>> Consoles: EFI console
>> failed to allocate staging area: 14
>> failed to allocate staging area
>> ## Application terminated, r = 5
>> EFI LOAD FAILED: continuing...
>>
>>
>   Could you try to decrease EFI_STAGING_SIZE to 32 in
> stand/efi/loader/copy.c ?

Didn't make any difference:

Found EFI removable media binary efi/boot/bootarm.efi
Scanning disks on usb...
Disk usb0 not ready
Disk usb1 not ready
Disk usb2 not ready
Disk usb3 not ready
Scanning disks on mmc...
MMC Device 1 not found
MMC Device 2 not found
MMC Device 3 not found
Found 3 disks
508704 bytes read in 26 ms (18.7 MiB/s)
## Starting EFI application at 42000000 ...
Consoles: EFI console
failed to allocate staging area: 14
failed to allocate staging area
## Application terminated, r = 5
EFI LOAD FAILED: continuing...

>   We currently request 64M for the staging size which seems to be too
> big for this board.
>   U-Boot cannot find enough memory it seems,
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/u-boot/latest/source/lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c#L300
>