FreeBSD 11 on Banana-Pi M3 A83t

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On 2017-10-02 21:50, Russell Haley wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 11:25 PM, Nomad Esst via freebsd-arm
> <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Hello Emmanuel
>> Thanks for your previous answers. I was trying to update the u-boot, 
>> but I couldn't do the job. As you said
>> 
>> "You could try updating u-boot to use the u-boot-master port 
>> (whichcurrently track the 2017.07 version of U-Boot)."
>> Please tell me how can I do this job? How can I update u-boot.
>> Thanks in advance.
> 
> * First, I want to point out that if your u-boot is on the emmc, then
> emmc support in u-boot "works fine". The output (from u-boot!) is
> complaining about an MibCard with 2048 bytes of something, which would
> be your ram. That means u-boot SPL loaded and a default value for the
> hardware settings may be incorrect.

  No this is just newlines have been striped out of the email.
  U-Boot report 2048 MiB of ram and then that Card didn't respond.

> So, if I were looking into this, I would pull ports from subversion
> and create a directory under my home directory. I would then go into
> the u-boot-bananapi2 port and examine the make file for details.
> 
> I went ahead and looked at
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/sysutils/ (*note that svnweb
> pages the output. The page control is at the top of the screen and the
> u-boot ports are on the second page.)
> 
> I opened the banana pi port and the makefile points to the
> u-boot-master makefile. In u-boot-master, the line that dictates the
> u-boot version pulled from Github is on line 67
> UBOOT_VERSION?= 2017.07.00.1
> 
> Since we pull from Github.com, perhaps you can try a couple of things:
> - Remove the line altogether and build u-boot. That *should* just pull
> the head revision (good thing, bad thing? not sure). I am not sure how
> you will check what revision was pulled and built

  Bad idea, this will not have the FreeBSD needed patches.

> - Point it to a version that you know has the support you need
> 
> If you were wanting to do a little more than update u-boot and hope, I
> would say you need to find the name of the board configuration
> directory and check the default settings. Das u-boot doesn't use DTS
> does it? It should be in the board specific source code if I had to
> guess.

  It depends, sometimes it uses DTS sometimes it just embed them.
  For allwinner (sunxi) it doesn't use them.

> I looked briefly at the u-boot/board directory on Gituhub and I don't
> see any support for allwinner or bananna pi's but I don't know what
> I'm looking for. I can't run the config step here to look at the list
> of supported boards.  If you run the configure script (or the make)
> and then look at boards.cfg (or something like that), it will tell you
> what support is available and point you to the right /board/
> directory.

  In U-Boot (and Linux mainline) it's called sunxi.

> You may also want to look at the linux-sunxi gitub repo as they have
> support for development boards that may not have made it back into
> u-boot head.

  No, everything is in u-boot mainline, and if it's not running u-boot 
from linux-sunxi will not help as it's tracking old u-boot with patches 
from Allwinner company.

> Please if someone knows better, let me know cause I'm learning as I go!
> HTH,
> 
> Russ
> 
>> 
>> 
>>     On Thursday, September 28, 2017 1:05 PM, Warner Losh 
>> <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 3:15 AM, Nomad Esst via freebsd-arm 
>> <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Thank you EmmanuelI'm trying to install u-boot-master according to the 
>> instruction mentioned in Fresh ports:
>> 
>> #cd /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot- master/ && make install clean
>> 
>> But I don't have this directory! I tried to install it using pkg 
>> install:
>> 
>> #pkg install sysutils/u-boot-master
>> 
>> But I get this error:
>> 
>> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...FreeBSD repository is up to 
>> date.All repositories are up to date.pkg: No packages available to 
>> install matching 'sysutils/u-boot-master' have been found in the 
>> repositories
>> Please help me solve this.
>> Thanks in advance
>> 
>> u-boot-master isn't a port that you install. It's just the place that 
>> you update when you want to change the u-boot version. You'd have to 
>> change it to point to the upstream version of u-boot rather than our 
>> repo, though, and that might start to get tricky....
>> Warner
>>     On Wednesday, September 27, 2017 5:48 PM, Emmanuel Vadot 
>> <manu at bidouilliste.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>  On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:26:00 +0000 (UTC)
>> Nomad Esst via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello allI have created an image using Crochet build tool for my BPi 
>>> M3 board. I have burnt it on it's on-board 4GB EMMC. When I try to 
>>> boot the board, I get the following error:
>>> 
>>> U-Boot SPL 2016.05 (Aug 13 2017 - 05:07:01)DRAM: 2048 MiBCard did not 
>>> respond to voltage select!Could not determine boot source
>>> resetting ...
>>> What should I do?
>>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>>  Our U-Boot is probably not recent enough to support the eMMC. A83T
>> support is not really great even in Linux or U-Boot.
>> 
>>  You could try updating u-boot to use the u-boot-master port (which
>> curently track the 2017.07 version of U-Boot).
>> 
>> --
>> Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at freebsd.org>
>> 
>> 
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