big.LITTLE status for rk3399/rockpro64?

[Vincent Milum Jr]

I've enabled all 6 cores now.

Unsure if it is related, but there were initialization issues with the
keyboard and trackpad after reboot. On first reboot, the keyboard entirely
locked up while typing the user name. On second reboot, keyboard
functioned, but there was no trackpad once I got into the X session. After
some time, it eventually started working on its own, no idea why.

Hardware aside, compute so far seems to work as expected. I tried opening
large YouTube videos, and watched it stress all 6 cores without issue.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:06 AM Danilo Egêa Gondolfo <danilo at freebsd.org>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 6:27 PM Vincent Milum Jr <freebsd-arm at darkain.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm curious about this, too. I recently got the Pinebook Pro up and
>> running, and would like to start testing all 6 CPU cores for doing
>> compilation tasks.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 10:19 AM Josh Howard <bsd at zeppelin.net> wrote:
>>
>> > It looks like it's been a couple of months since there's been any news
>> > around it. Anything in particular still needed as far as testing or
>> > debugging that goes? I have a Rockpro64 and a RockPi4e (though I don't
>> have
>> > that booting yet.) that I could potentially test on.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> >
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>
> The number of CPUs was limited here
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=360321
>
> If you remove the hw.ncpu from your loader.conf you'll be able to use all
> the 6 cores.
>
> Although the commit message mentions a "known issue" with the big.LITTLE
> architecture, I was able to use all the 6 cores to rebuild the entire
> system and I didn't face any issue.
>
> Maybe manu@ could give us some context about that.
>