Re: State of the freebsd/crochet project?
- Reply: Mark Millard : "Re: State of the freebsd/crochet project?"
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 07:31:50 UTC
On Oct 19, 2023, at 22:30, Rahul Rameshbabu <sergeantsagara@protonmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct, 2023 00:45:25 -0700 "Mark Millard" <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Oct 18, 2023, at 21:41, Rahul Rameshbabu <sergeantsagara@protonmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 17 Oct, 2023 09:01:33 -0600 "Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 7:44 AM void <void@f-m.fm> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 07:13:28AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Crochet has no active maintainers. Most people have moved on to poudriere.
>>>>
>>>> Does poudriere handle the msdos uboot *and* efi part when
>>>> creating the image?
>>>>
>>>> Yes. I worked with manu years ago to put all the needed metadata for the different boards into the ports...
>>>
>>> It does but it seems to have an unfortunate caveat. It assumes that
>>> FAT16 is supported by all embedded targets. The Raspberry Pi 4 and I
>>> assume the Pi 5 as well drop support for FAT16
>>
>> The snapshot images booted the RPI4B's that I have access to just fine
>> last I tried such. But release/arm64/RPI.conf and release/tools/arm.subr
>> which are used to build such uses (selective axtractions across files):
>>
>> FAT_SIZE="50m -b 1m"
>> FAT_TYPE="16"
>> . . .
>> gpart add -t efi -l efi -a 512k -s ${FAT_SIZE} ${mddev}
>> newfs_msdos -L efi -F ${FAT_TYPE} /dev/${mddev}s1
>>
>> FreeBSD release images are also build with such: efi partition
>> type and a FAT16 file system.
>>
>> Looking at a (my abbreviation) RaspiOS64 boot media used to boot
>> the RPi4B's (official RPi* media content, not FreeBSD materials):
>>
>> # newfs_msdos -N /dev/da0s1
>> /dev/da0s1: 523984 sectors in 32749 FAT16 clusters (8192 bytes/cluster)
>> BytesPerSec=512 SecPerClust=16 ResSectors=1 FATs=2 RootDirEnts=512 Media=0xf0 FATsecs=128 SecPerTrack=63 Heads=255 HiddenSecs=0 HugeSectors=524288
>>
>> But it does have a partition type of fat32lba:
>>
>> # gpart show -p /dev/da0
>> => 63 468862065 da0 MBR (224G)
>> 63 8129 - free - (4.0M)
>> 8192 524288 da0s1 fat32lba (256M)
>> 532480 468329648 da0s2 linux-data (223G)
>>
>> Do you know some specific RPi4B EEPROM content for which a FAT16
>> file syatem is not supported? (The EEPROM has the RPi4B boot
>> loader.) Or are you saying some U-Boot vintage is restricted to
>> FAT32 file systems for loading FreeBSD's EFI/BOOT/bootaa64.efi ?
>
> Yes, I believe that newer EEPROMs in 2020 and above (don't have the
> exact release version but I can bisect if we need to know) no longer
> support FAT16 unfortunately.
I just booted a RPi4B Rev 1.5 "C0T" part that has:
RPi: BOOTLOADER release VERSION:8ba17717 DATE: 2023/01/11 TIME: 17:40:52
BOOTMODE: 0x06 partition 63 build-ts BUILD_TIMESTAMP=1673458852 serial c740af3c boardrev d03115 stc 421180
Halt: wake: 1 power_off: 0
off the (what I call) RaspiOS64 media that I referenced earlier.
That means FAT16 with a partition indicating fat32lba.
There have been bug fixes, such as the 2022=01-31 EEPROM release that
reported: "FAT/GPT fixes and file-system performance improvements."
> Here is a relevant link on Raspberry Pi
> forums but I can experiment with pinning an exact EEPROM version from
> the Raspberry PI repository if need be. When I got my Raspberry Pi 4
> board recently, I did an upgrade to the latest EEPROM version and
> noticed this issue.
>
> * https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=278295#p1685235
At that point (2020-06) there were only 2 tagged EEPROM content
releases:
v2020.04.16-137ad
v2019.09.10-137ad
There are 11 from after 2020-06.
> * https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/releases
>
> I am using the BOOT_UART feature of the Raspberry Pi 4 for this
> debugging. I was debugging why the image I created at the had failed and
> noticed the bootloader was failing to actually access/read any content
> from the boot partition of the SD card. Switching to FAT32 resolved the
> issue for me immediately, making me trust the assumption about the state
> of later EEPROM releases from the repository.
As I've indicated, the official releases of official RPi*
images have FAT16 files systems for the RPi* firmware --and
they boot just fine when dd'd to the USB3 media that I use.
Similarly, the modern official FreeBSD images boot just fine
and also have FAT16 for the msdosfs for the RPi*
firmware+U-Boot+FreeBSED-UEFI-loader.
FreeBSD has had problems with a U-Boot vintage that was messed
up for 8 GiByte RPi4B's. But that is now in the past.
> I noticed in that first link I added here, there seems to be mixed
> opinions on whether the FAT16 file system is supported or not on latest
> EEPROM releases for the Pi 4. Let me go back and test once again with a
> FAT16 file system for my boot partition. I am currently running Jan 11,
> 2023 release (I see they have a new release for Oct 18, 2023).
I've not tested the 2023-10-18 release.
> On a side note for myself, might be nice to throw the rpi-eeprom tools
> into a port for others to easily grab.
>
>>
>> Or may be you are referencing the partition type (expressed here
>> in gpart terms), instead of the actual file system type that is
>> contained? :
>>
>> efi The system partition for computers that use the
>> Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI). The scheme-
>> specific types are "!239" for MBR, and
>> "!c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b" for GPT.
>> . . .
>> fat16 A partition that contains a FAT16 filesystem. The
>> scheme-specific type is "!6" for MBR.
>>
>> fat32 A partition that contains a FAT32 filesystem. The
>> scheme-specific type is "!11" for MBR.
>>
>> fat32lba A partition that contains a FAT32 (LBA)
>> filesystem. The scheme-specific type is "!12" for
>> MBR.
>>
>> (It has been some time since last I tried it, but last I tried
>> partition type fat16, the RPi4B's boot from it just fine if I
>> remember right. But GPT is supported, not just MBR.)
>>
>
> I am not referring to the partition type rather than the real filesystem
> type, but thanks for checking. In my boot flow with the image I
> generate, I am using the efi partition type.
>
>>> , so the boot partition
>>> needs to be FAT32.
>>>
>>
>> Not for the actual file system for any fairly modern vintage of
>> RPi4B EEPROM content or U-Boot that I'm aware of. I've less
>> certainty about the range of partition types, not having tested
>> such in recent times.
>>
>> Is there a chance you are using so large of an msdos file
>> system that a FAT32/FAT32LBA file system is a requirement?
>
> Great question but I believe that is not the case since for the same
> msdos file system (though with different components from rpi-firmware),
> I am able to boot the Raspberry Pi 3 up correctly. Let me verify once
> more FAT16 (the filesystem) was indeed problematic for me since I was
> debugging other issues like not realizing the Pi 4 needed different
> components from the rpi-firmware project compared to previous boards.
>
===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com