Re: Nanopi R5S support and build guide
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Date: Fri, 05 May 2023 05:23:15 UTC
On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 10:05 PM Matheus <lojas@arroway.org> wrote:
> > 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.
>
Above image works for me:
root@NanoPi-R5S:~ # ifconfig
re0: flags=8803<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=201b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,WOL_MAGIC>
ether 62:73:64:e2:d4:87
inet 192.168.111.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.111.255
media: Ethernet autoselect
status: no carrier
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
re1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=201b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,WOL_MAGIC>
ether 62:73:64:9a:5e:55
inet 192.168.2.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
status: active
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
eq0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=80008<VLAN_MTU,LINKSTATE>
ether 22:07:01:bb:41:76
inet 192.168.1.202 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
status: active
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=680003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
groups: lo
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
root@NanoPi-R5S:~ # uname -an
FreeBSD NanoPi-R5S 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #0
main-n261950-4aeb939ecf8b-dirty: Sun Apr 2 17:42:01 MSK 2023
root@honeycomb.local:/usr/crochet/work/obj/usr/crochet/src-current-14.0/arm64.aarch64/sys/EXPERT
arm64
root@NanoPi-R5S:~ # kldstat
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 8 0xffff000000000000 10cb350 kernel
2 1 0xffff0000010cd000 a9508 if_re.ko
3 1 0xffff0000c9e00000 24000 fdescfs.ko
4 1 0xffff0000c9e24000 22000 mac_ntpd.ko
root@NanoPi-R5S:~ #
Ganbold
>
> 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.itbï
> ¿¼
> >> >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."
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
> --
> "We will call you Cygnus,
> the God of balance you shall be."
> ------------------------------
> "We will call you Cygnus,
> the God of balance you shall be."