Re: Nanopi R5S support and build guide

On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 6:50 PM Matheus <lojas@arroway.org> wrote:

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>
> On May 1, 2023 1:47:12 PM GMT-03:00, "Søren Schmidt" <
> soren.schmidt@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 30 Apr 2023, at 23.44, Matheus <lojas@arroway.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am trying to have FreeBSD 14 running on this SBC. I could not find
> >any guides in how to build images for it. I found the
> >people.freebsd.org/~sos/ site that has some images, and one for it, but
> >that seldom boots my board, and when it did, there was no console over
> >serial or vga.
> >>
> >> If anyone can give any hints. Unfortunately my dev skills are not
> >good. But I can test and help build once I figure out how :)
> >
> >Hi Matheus
> >
> >The image at
> >
> >
> https://people.freebsd.org/~sos/ARM64/current-RK356X-images/nano5-sdcard.img.gz
> >
> >for the Nanopi R5S does indeed boot with both HDMI output and serial
> >console (1500000baud).
> >
> >The boot loader (EDK2 in FDT mode) is very picky on SD card quality
> >though from experience, I works for me with Sandisk Ultra / Extreme
> >cards but not with Samsung and cheap noname SD cards YMMV.
>
> Hi Søren,
>
> I had really issues on sd carda. I got it to boot once, but I was printing
> characters on screen at one per second. So I rebooted and don't remember
> why rewrote the card. I can't boot anymore. Tried different cards, SanDisk
> ultra, no luck.
>
> I can boot an 13.2 image from the guy at personalbsd though. But there I
> have just one ethernet.
> On 13.2 I cannot list the ethernets nics using pciconf -lv, including the
> one that works. Is this expected?


Yes. Did you try
https://personalbsd.org/download/Business/FreeBSD-aarch64-14.0-CURRENT-NanoPi-R5S-20230402.img.xz
?
This image should have support for pcie and all ethernet should work IIRC.

Ganbold



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> I have little understanding of the arch, so my progress is much slow.
> I got some dmesg from OpenBSD people where the nics show in ifconfig. But
> I couldn't get mine to behave this way. I can install though, using USB
> nic.
> I will try to buy a new sd card from the good list you pointed.
> Another thing, I got the feeling that when I dd'ed the image using the SD
> card slot on the notebook it worked and when was through usb adapter did
> not. Does it make sense? Using Linux mint as host for this.
> Thanks so much for the answer and help,
>
> Matheus
>
>
> >You can build a stock ARM64 generic kernel and most things will be
> >usable, however as Ganbold wrote the DTS files is not in there yet (and
> >not even in linux where our DTS files are fetched from).
> >However the EDK2 boot loader provided (and used in above image) on
> >
> >https://people.freebsd.org/~sos/ARM64/EDK2-RK356X/NANOPI-R5S_EFI.itb
> >NANOPI-R5S_EFI
> >File · 1,7 MB
> >
> >does hand over the “right” DTB file if you want to experiment.
> >
> >If you need the used DTS file and build guidance let me know in private
> >mail...
> >
> >--
> >Søren Schmidt
> >sos@deepcore.dk / sos@freebsd.org
> >"So much code to hack, so little time"
>
> ---
> "We will call you Cygnus,
> the God of balance you shall be."
>
>