Re: /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-orangepi-plus-2e/README out of date ; orangepi-plus-2e and RPi2 v1.1 get "Kernel args: (null)"

On 2021-May-24, at 15:53, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 2021-May-13, at 12:03, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>>>> . . .
> 
> I do not know if the FreeBSD kernel has been depending
> on some U-Boot initialization for root-on-USB and the
> two no longer match or what.
> 
> But I've used a release/13.0.0.0 microsd card based
> boot to get older U-Boot materials (Quarterly as it
> turns out). Installing such got me back to having a
> root-on-USB boot of the OPi+2e (other than the
> mircosd card having the older U-Boot (2020.10 as it
> turns out). Of course there is also the matching
> boot.scr involved --but it also is on the USB SSD.
> (Similarly reverted RPi2 U-Boot, other than needing
> to switch boot.scr to match.)
> 
> After booting with the reverted U-Boot related
> material:
> 
> # mount -onoatime -tmsdosfs /dev/mmcsd1s1 /mnt
> # mount -onoatime /dev/mmcsd1s2a /media
> 
> # ls -Tla /mnt/
> total 20
> drwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  16384 Dec 31 16:00:00 1979 .
> drwxr-xr-x  25 root  wheel    512 Dec 31 16:00:40 2009 ..
> 
> # ls -Tla /media/
> total 60
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    512 May 24 15:43:19 2021 .
> drwxr-xr-x  25 root  wheel    512 Dec 31 16:00:40 2009 ..
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  52456 Apr 24 19:48:36 2021 bootcode.bin
> 
> The media is also set up for booting an RPi2 via
> root-in-USB ( other than bootcode.bin ).
> 
> If FreeBSD and the more modern U-Boot were well matched
> for USB support, I'd expect that this sort of thing would
> work (no boot.scr needed).
> 
> For reference:
> 
> # ~/fbsd-based-on-what-freebsd-main.sh 
> FreeBSD OPiP2E_RPi2v11 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT mm-src-n245445-def0058cc690 GENERIC-NODBG  arm armv7 1400005 1400005
> def0058cc690 (HEAD -> mm-src) mm-src snapshot for mm's patched build in git context.
> merge-base: 7381bbee29df959e88ec59866cf2878263e7f3b2
> merge-base: CommitDate: 2021-03-12 20:29:42 +0000
> 7381bbee29df (freebsd/main, freebsd/HEAD, pure-src, main) cam: Run all XPT_ASYNC ccbs in a dedicated thread
> n245444 (--first-parent --count for merge-base)

Looks like 2021.04 (even before 2021.04_1) also has the
problem for root-on-USB handling.

I managed to find a 2021-Apr-09 u-boot-orangepi-plus-2e
directory copy that was 2021.04 (and its boot.scr) but
before the UEFI change. When I tried it for the
root-on-USB context I still got the hangup after "Kernel
args: (null)" in:

. . .
Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...               
Using DTB provided by EFI at 0x47eea000.
Kernel entry at 0xb2e00200...
Kernel args: (null)


So it does not appear to be the UEFI change so much as
2021.04 in general for which the FreeBSD kernel and
the U-Boot are apparently(?) mismatched for root-on-USB.


Reverting again to 2020.10 U-Boot got back the root-on-USB
status. For this the boot looks like:

. . .
Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...               
Using DTB provided by EFI at 0x47ef5000.
Kernel entry at 0xb2e00200...
Kernel args: (null)
---<<BOOT>>---
KDB: debugger backends: ddb
KDB: current backend: ddb
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. . .


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