Re: Nanopi R5S support and build guide

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

Hi Ganbold,

I tried it and other 2 images and no success, including the image pointed
by Soren. Unfortunately I just got to boot one image from 14 but I
overwritten the sd card and can't remember which sd card and image :(

The only image I can make it boot is from 13.2R, and I got it installed
fine (using an EFI image from personalbsd from March 23).

Will wait for the next round of images for 14.

Thanks,

matheus

>>
>> 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."
>>
>>
>


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