Re: FYI: FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm-armv7-GENERICSD-20220930-42dc8696df5-258315.img is broken for RPi2 v1.1 (so: armv7)

On 2022-Oct-11, at 06:17, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 11:50 PM Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 2022-Oct-10, at 21:08, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 
> . . .
> > And are you sure it's a booting issue and not a console issue?
> 
> No clue for your distinction. But, being serial console
> based until ssh is possible for my context, I classify
> serial-console-broken as a booting issue. (For example,
> not being able to identify the DHCP address assigned
> if it did make it that far.)
> 
> So it's not a booting issue (where the loader can't find the disk,
> can't load the kernel or loads it such that it hangs), but a default
> console issue. That's a lot easier for me to help solve.
 
I wrote separately later that I got a HDMI context set up and
both the serial and HDMI consoles stopped, showing the same
final text.

(I'm  not sure  that the final "-" lways shows up. But the HDMI
and serial displays do seem to always agree about it.)

> . . .
> 
> The change was made in late August that I'm thinking of, so if you could find a
> snapshot from early August July that would be a useful data point:
> 
> commit df065f699f1ff819bb9607c44a6754275ab335ed
> Author: Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
> Date:   Fri Aug 26 15:46:33 2022 -0600
> 
>     stand: More sensible defaults when ConOut is missing

I'll look at finding and trying some artifact build to extract a
armv7 EFI loader from. Available snapshot history does not
go back that far so far as I know.

But I may not be able to look into this immediately.

In main:

commit df065f699f1ff819bb9607c44a6754275ab335ed
Author:     Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-08-26 21:46:33 +0000
Commit:     Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2022-08-27 04:17:56 +0000

It looks like the closest prior artifact is at:

https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/main/a358db5603702d5de5fd75f5bd16bbf7c0ab673f/arm/armv7/?C=M&O=D
git: a358db560370 - main - socket(2): bring documentation up tp date Gleb Smirnoff

with date/time: 2022-Aug-26 16:26

So I expect to use that.

> I think this should be backed out and we should use a different hueristic
> when we don't know.
> 
> If you have RPi2B v1.1 (so: armv7) access, just try to boot:
> 
> FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm-armv7-GENERICSD-20220930-42dc8696df5-258315.img
> 
> via serial console usage, no video connection present. (I
> did not try a video connection as that is not my type of
> context.)

Again: It turned out that serial+HDMI also shows the issue.

I also later reported that the snapshot with the date 20221007
also shows the issue. You do not need to use the 20220930 one.

> . . .
> OK. That's a fairly clear set of instructions.  I'll try to work that into my
> schedule.

Thanks.


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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com