freebsd-arm Digest, Vol 720, Issue 4

[Ross Alexander]

> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 07:41:36 +0100
> From: freebsd at x86.ch
> To: bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net>
> Cc: freebsd-arm at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: RPI4 Install r357606 test 09.02.2020 failed
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> hi bob
>
> for your information
>
> FreeBSD bsdrasp3 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT r343104 GENERIC? arm64
>
> that runs perfectly on the rpi3b+

FWTIW,

     Last login: Sat Feb  1 09:40:33 2020 from auwow2.bogons
     FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT (GENERIC-NODEBUG) #2 r356767: Tue Feb 11 13:27:57 MST 2020

There seems to be general agreement on r356767 as the last
"sees all cpus, runs stably" kernel.  My /boot contains,
in part,

     rpi3:/u0/rwa > ls -ld /boot/kernel*
     lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     14 Feb 11 18:17 /boot/kernel -> kernel.r356767
     drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  13312 Dec 11 09:28 /boot/kernel.r355553
     drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  13312 Jan 11 14:18 /boot/kernel.r356595
     drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  13312 Feb 11 18:14 /boot/kernel.r356767
     drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  13312 Jan 20 04:56 /boot/kernel.r356904
     drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  13312 Jan 31 16:23 /boot/kernel.r357318
     drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  13312 Feb  1 19:12 /boot/kernel.r357356
     drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  13312 Feb  9 13:03 /boot/kernel.r357644

As you can see, I've tried r356904, r357318, r357356, r357644 and no
solution yet - but I know some smart folk are working hard on it, they
will prevail :)

Having said that, here's my puzzle - I use crochet to build little
test images.  I last pulled it down from github 14 Nov 2019 via

     git clone https://github.com/freebsd/crochet.git

(and pulling it down today and doing a 'diff -r' says that nothing
has happened.)  I've got pretty recent copies of the dependancies;

     aubey2:/u0/cr-wk > pkg info -E -x rpi
     rpi-firmware-1.20190925.g20200109
     u-boot-rpi-2019.10
     u-boot-rpi2-2019.10
     u-boot-rpi3-2019.10
     u-boot-rpi4-2019.10

BUT the mmscd images don't recognize the gpart partitions on
my rpi3's usb ssd any more.

I will provide better info when I get home and have a couple of hours
to collect boot listings.  In short, what's broken in u-boot 2019.10,
or what config change does it need to see gpart partitions on a USB
device?

regards,
Ross

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