Re: HoneyComb first-boot notes

> On 2021-Jun-22, at 02:20, Dmitry Salychev via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>>> I put an existing FreeBSD Optane into a just delivered
>>>>>> HoneyComb, put in the RAM and the matching UEFI/ACPI
>>>>>> image on a microsd card and put the card in the slot.
>>>>>> I plugged in a USB3 Ethernet dongle, like I use on some
>>>>>> other systems. Serial console via its USB port for such.
>>>>>> (Optane instead of video card.) The UEFI/ACPI image was
>>>>>> extracted from:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://solid-run-images.sos-de-fra-1.exo.io/LX2k/lx2160a_uefi/lx2160acex7_2000_700_2900_8_5_2_sd_81b4bbe.img.xz
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> in order to match the RAM and being based on the
>>>>>> most current vintage at:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://github.com/SolidRun/lx2160a_uefi/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It booted.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Could you share whole dmesg?
>>>> 
>>>> I've not done a "boot -v" . The below is actually from a
>>>> captured serial console output. It is lightly edited. I
>>>> have omitted nearly all loader output (and before).
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks for sharing. Have you seen somewhere in output from UEFI (before
>>> the loader) that "DPAA2 Management Complex initialized"?
>> 
>> The text "DPAA2" does not occur in the captured output
>> at all. However, that is my understanding of the expected
>> status.
> 
> That's strange because DPAA2 firmware should be included into UEFI built from
> lx2160a_uefi:
> 
> https://github.com/SolidRun/edk2-platforms/blob/edk2-stable202102-lx2160acex7/Platform/SolidRun/LX2160aCex7/LX2160aCex7.fdf#L252
> 
> I assumed that there might be any output that firmware has been loaded correctly
> at least.

The edk2 build is not a debug build and, before putting up
the menu, only outputs (I stripped some escape sequences):