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

[Summary: Both somewhat before and just after your ConOut commit
work. I'll have to do a rough bisect with the available armv7
artifacts that are after those but before October.]

On 2022-Oct-11, at 08:26, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 2022-Oct-11, at 06:17, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> . . .
>> . . .
>> 
>> 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.

Turns out that I had the time.

Use of the ./boot/loader.efi from a358db560370 substituted
into the failing main snapshot based microsd card worked
fine for both contexts:

A) Just serial console.
and:
B) Serial console and HDMI console at the same time.

I also tried the oldest artifact build with the loader change
in place:

https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/main/7ed3228323ef4f9e3130603ea68c3be9c2ed50ce/arm/armv7/
git: 7ed3228323ef - main - stand: Document that boot0 uses BIOS Warner Losh
Date/time: 2022-Aug-27 05:12

This also worked for both (A) and (B).

So it looks like I'll be doing a rough bisect to find a
before/after pair. It might have some elapsed time to
finish.

>> 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.
> 



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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com