Re: Nanopi R5S support and build guide

From: Ganbold Tsagaankhuu <ganbold_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 06 May 2023 02:03:47 UTC
On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 6:03 AM Matheus <lojas@arroway.org> wrote:

>
>
> On May 5, 2023 2:23:15 AM GMT-03:00, Ganbold Tsagaankhuu <
> ganbold@gmail.com> wrote:
> >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
>
> Hi Ganbold and others,
>
> I gave another try today and I got to see some stuff on the serial console
> but the serial terminal itself is not usable. It prints unrecognizable
> characters, but I could recognize the red beastie logo.
> On the hdmi screen I have no output. Can you confirm the serial speed
> line?
> It was 115200 when I saw all that, and then tried 1500000 and despite it
> was printing something that looks like the boot, just weird characters
> appeared.


With
https://personalbsd.org/download/Business/FreeBSD-aarch64-14.0-CURRENT-NanoPi-R5S-20230402.img.xz
image
I use 115200.

Ganbold



>
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Matheus
>
>
> >>
> >> 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."
>
> ---
> "We will call you Cygnus,
> the God of balance you shall be."
>