Bootable image for Macchatobin Double Shot?

[Mark Murray]

Hi Greg,

> On 25 Apr 2020, at 19:01, greg at unrelenting.technology wrote:
> 
> Okay, so for some reason RELEASE builds don't work properly, what the heck.
> Uploaded a working DEBUG build to that URL,
> sha256:86fba8d239e83d87389a641c90d40137a15604a4b1ec0a7a047cb55f58b1e944

It works! It works! Thank you!

> now it's actually tested, sorry for being too lazy to test :D

No problem. It's very chatty on startup, but that's DEBUG builds for you. I'm not
complaining.

> April 25, 2020 7:32 PM, "Mark Murray" <markm at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> Can I help in any way? I'm used to big build (but no good at building on Windows).
> 
> Windows is not required, the build is not really big either.
> Everything builds on FreeBSD (if you patch a couple things to use gmake instead of make, etc).

I could do that!

> X86_64 now can actually use clang's native PE output btw.
> This hasn't been done for AARCH64 yet, so we still have to rely on the weird "build-ELF-and-repack" system..

Cool. From where do I clone?

>>>>> Also, have you tried any other PCIe cards?
>>>> 
>>>> Nope - 'fraid not :-(.
>>>> 
>>>> My intention is to use this dual-port NIC until (if?) the on-board NICs are made to work, then I'll
>>>> use them and then buy a cheapo PCIe video card to make a proper console I can use with a KVM
>>>> switch. But I need to get the PCI going first :-)
> 
> That's a surprising usage for a mcbin by the way :)

Its going to be a combination build-box (occasionally) and firewall/gateway (permanently on).
I'm retiring an old, power-hungry PC and I want a gateway that can do double-duty as a background
buildibox. "Console" here doesn't imply graphics; just enough to do basic administration.

> It's quite expensive for its capabilities, I only bought it because of pure aarch64 enthusiasm
> and desire to have a physical ARM desktop dev box with a working AMD GPU.

I chose it because of its capabilities :-) the price is acceptable.

> If I needed something as practical as a console, I would've picked up some cheap Intel thing
> that wouldn't even need an external video card.

I also have RPIs, WandBoards and so on, but these aren't much good for building. Pretty, though!

> Also, a USB3 NIC should be more than enough for a console, right?
> I recommend axge(4) ASIX chips found in "Nintendo Switch compatible" dongles.
> My mcbin gets ~600 Mbit/s on iperf3 tcp with that thing.

Naah. It will be routing DSL broadband for a living.

>>> 
>>> I've started an attempt at porting the onboard NIC driver last summer:
>>> https://github.com/myfreeweb/pepevtwo-kmod
>> 
>> Oooh! Are you amenable to bribery? ;-)
> 
> The lack of knowledge is bigger than the lack of motivation here, haha.
> I'm not really familiar with DMA, iflib (or the more basic kernel API for NICs), all that stuff.
> I basically don't know what I'm doing, my driver dev skills max out at making tiny
> drivers for simple things like watchdogs and fixing stuff in existing drivers.

Aah, OK. I have zero knowledge of that myself. :-(

M
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