Problems booting a MACCHIATObin Double Shot Rev 1.3 with head -r335027

[greg at unrelenting.technology]

December 2, 2019 12:32 AM, "Mark Millard" <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> What is the distinction between the two .bin files?

I don't remember, but I just decided not to overwrite one of the files
on the S3 bucket for some reason back then :D

> With changing to ACPI with flash-image2.bin mostly worked
> and did boot to multi-user (dtb failed the same old way):
> 
> But the console output for the boot has a large hole in it:

Hm, only the userspace but not the kernel one.
I'm more familiar with the opposite case :)
(namely on amazon ec2: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19896)

Again, did you enable boot_multicons in loader.conf?

> I do not know what to do to get, say, the slower speed EtherNet going,
> or if I can. But the serial console seems to be working fine once it
> starts going.

The onboard Ethernet? Nope, even the 1Gbit port belongs to the fancy Marvell PPv2 NIC.
I sort of barely attempted porting the driver from Linux:
https://github.com/myfreeweb/pepevtwo-kmod
but did not have the time/energy to implement anything beyond writing the initial
configuration registers on the device.

I just use an axge(4) based USB Ethernet dongle.
Since you don't use a GPU, you can add a PCIe NIC instead :)