Re: RPi3 usb boot hang on stable/13

On 2022-Jul-2, at 09:58, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote:

> Lately an RPi3 running stable/13 has started hanging on boot from USB
> The disk is on a powered hub.
> 
> When gracefully rebooted it ends with:
> 
> .....
> MESS:00:00:03.166523:0: Device tree loaded to 0x4000 (size 0x63cd)
> MESS:00:00:03.172180:0: uart: Set PL011 baud rate to 103448.300000 Hz
> MESS:00:00:03.178716:0: uart: Baud rate change done...
> MESS:00:00:03.182145:0: uart: Baud rate change done...
> MESS:00:00:03.187830:0: gpioman: gpioman_get_pin_num: pin SDCARD_CONTROL_POWER not defined
> MMC:   mmc@7e300000: 1
> Loading Environment from FAT... OK
> In:    serial
> Out:   vidconsole
> Err:   vidconsole
> Net:   No ethernet found.
> starting USB...
> Bus usb@7e980000: scanning bus usb@7e980000 for devices... 6 USB Device(s) found
>       scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found
> Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0 
> 
> Device 0: 

That is U-Boot output. Looks like the output stopped before
the load of even the FreeBSD loader: FreeBSD is not involved
yet so it is not a FreeBSD problem.

> At that point the console is unresponsive. 

Nasty.

> The machine has a history of not always finding the USB disk, but this
> appears to be new behavior. As with the disk discovery problem, the
> error can be worked around by simple repetition. Once booted it's 
> stable but network response remains erratic.
> 
> There's some indication that power-cycling the hard disk helps.
> 
> At the moment uname -a reports
> 
> FreeBSD pelorus.zefox.org 13.1-STABLE FreeBSD 13.1-STABLE #5 stable/13-n251597-7c500f98b8d: Fri Jul  1 21:52:12 PDT 2022     bob@pelorus.zefox.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/arm64.aarch64/sys/GENERIC arm64

But FreeBSD is not involved yet at the failure point.

What vintage of U-Boot?

# strings u-boot.bin | grep "U-Boot 20"


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Mark Millard
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