Re: Nanopi R5S support and build guide

From: Matheus <lojas_at_arroway.org>
Date: Sat, 06 May 2023 05:55:38 UTC

On May 5, 2023 11:03:47 PM GMT-03:00, Ganbold Tsagaankhuu <ganbold@gmail.com> wrote:
>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. Tried earlier but no luck. 

Could you send me a dmesg? I think much of it is in the acpi/dtb issue. I would like to see how your dmesg shows.

Does it have regular hdmi output? As there is in 13.2?

Thanks, 

Matheus

>>
>>
>> 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."
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
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>>

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