Recommended arm hardware (mostly for compilation)?

[Dan Kotowski]

After a solid 16hrs this weekend, I can confirm that the pre-built images do NOT "just work", at least not with SolidRun's HoneyComb version rev 1.4. A more thorough post in the other thread I have about this platform with subject "FreeBSD on Layerscape/QorIQ LX2160X".

Dan Kotowski

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On Sunday, May 17, 2020 10:00 PM, Mark Millard via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> wrote:

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>
> On 2020-May-17, at 03:26, Mark Murray <mrvmurray aticloud.com> wrote:
>
> > > On 17 May 2020, at 10:41, Mark Millard via freebsd-arm freebsd-arm at freebsd.org wrote:
> > > Sounds like a LX2K would be an interesting thing to
> > > compare with.
> >
> > If UEFI was ported, would FreeBSD "Just Work" like on the Macchiatobin?
> > . . .
>
> I do not know but there appears to be a UEFI port already.
> There is:
>
> https://github.com/SolidRun/edk2-platforms/tree/master-lx2160a
>
> as was referenced in:
>
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2020-May/021609.html
>
> I've no clue if the combination of that with FreeBSD "just works".
> The last commit seems to be on 2020-Feb-12.
>
> The edk2 material above seems to be tied to the same person as
> the twitter link below, with a solid-run E-mail address shown
> in edk2 material.
>
> There is https://twitter.com/linux4kix/status/1210936214259404800?s=20
> that reports the PCIe ECAM needs a quirk to deal with the differing
> address spaces between it and the devices behind it. It mentions SATA
> errata as well. And it mentions V2 silicon in the future for fixing
> these points. It also indicates "98% SBSA compliant".
>
> One of the replies is from Jared McNeill indicating that he got his
> board and was looking to get NetBSD running on it.
>
> Back at the edk2-platform/tree/master-lx2160a area there is this:
>
> QUOTE
> Add this class code so AHCI functions properly on kernels that don't
> have the qoriq specific AHCI driver.
>
> This still misses the quirk for V1 silicon that if the device is hard
> reset the SerDes can lose link, but in general this is enough to boot
> and install an OS.
> END QUOTE
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