Re: HoneyComb first-boot notes
- Reply: Dan Kotowski : "Re: HoneyComb first-boot notes"
- In reply to: Mark Millard via freebsd-arm : "Re: HoneyComb first-boot notes"
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 10:53:12 UTC
> >>>>>> 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): > > > NOTICE: UDIMM KHX2933C17S4/32G > NOTICE: DDR4 UDIMM with 2-rank 64-bit bus (x8) > > NOTICE: 64 GB DDR4, 64-bit, CL=17, ECC off, 256B, CS0+CS1 > NOTICE: BL2: Booting BL31 > NOTICE: BL31: v2.4(release):v2.0-4462-ge7b392d0a > NOTICE: BL31: Built : 07:47:10, May 31 2021 > NOTICE: Welcome to lx2160acex7 BL31 Phase > > UEFI firmware built at 07:44:26 on May 31 2021. version: > 202102 > SOC: LX2160ACE Rev2.0 (0x87360020) > UEFI firmware (version 202102 built at 07:44:28 on May 31 2021) > Tianocore/EDK2 firmware version 202102 > Press ESCAPE for boot options .... > > After the menu things start with basically: > > Consoles: serial port > |/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\ Reading loader env vars from /efi/freebsd/loader.env > Setting currdev to disk2p1: > |/-\|/FreeBSD/arm64 EFI loader, Revision 1.1 > > Command line arguments: loader.efi > Image base: 0xedc89000 > EFI version: 2.70 > EFI Firmware: EDK II (rev 0.00) > Console: comconsole (0) > Load Path: \EFI\BOOT\BOOTAA64.EFI > . . . > > One might be able to make inferences from the content > of some potential menu displays. Otherwise, I expect > that a debug build would be required to see DPAA2 > references. > > I do not expect one can validly infer much from the > lack of "DPAA2" text in my boot sequence (with any > capitalization vs. lower case status). > > === > Mark Millard > marklmi at yahoo.com > ( dsl-only.net went > away in early 2018-Mar) > Could you share an output of "acpidump -d"? Regards, Dmitry