CUBOX snapshots working?

[Warner Losh]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 3:21 AM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 3:20 AM, Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:05:40 -0600
>> Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
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>> > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> > > On Tue, 2017-09-26 at 16:45 -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
>> > > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org>
>> wrote:
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>> > > > >
>> > > > > On Tue, 2017-09-26 at 14:07 -0700, Russell Haley wrote:
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>> > > > > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Emmanuel Vadot
>> <manu at bidouillis
>> > > > > > te.c
>> > > > > > om> wrote:
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>> > > > > > > On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:21:52 -0600
>> > > > > > > Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > > > > > >
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>> > > > > > > > On Tue, 2017-09-26 at 20:04 +0200, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
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>> > > > > > > > > On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:32:21 -0600
>> > > > > > > > > Brett Glass <brett at lariat.net> wrote:
>> > > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > > >
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>> > > > > > > > > > One would think that sauce for the goose would be sauce
>> > > > > > > > > > for
>> > > > > > > > > > the
>> > > > > > > > > > gander. But is this particular Cubox now useless with
>> > > > > > > > > > FreeBSD?
>> > > > > > > > > > And if so, why? It is not an unusual model. The Cubox
>> > > > > > > > > > does
>> > > > > > > > > > work
>> > > > > > > > > > if I flash their "Ignition" startup software (which is
>> > > > > > > > > > used
>> > > > > > > > > > to
>> > > > > > > > > > bootstrap by downloading various OS images) to the same
>> > > > > > > > > > Micro SD card.
>> > > > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > > > --Brett Glass
>> > > > > > > > >  The problem isn't FreeBSD related, it's U-Boot related.
>> > > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > >  You could test build mainline u-boot just to confirm that
>> > > > > > > > > it
>> > > > > > > > > isn't
>> > > > > > > > > something due to our ports.
>> > > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > If we used to provide working cubox images and we don't
>> > > > > > > > anymore,
>> > > > > > > > it's
>> > > > > > > > hard to call that anything but a freebsd problem.
>> > > > > > >  There is working cubox images, the last one is from
>> yesterday.
>> > > > > > >  You even say yourself that you did test it and that it
>> worked.
>> > > > > > >  Do we even know if the snapshot worked for this board ?
>> > > > > > >  Brett, could you test the 11.0 release for example ? (I don't
>> > > > > > > remember
>> > > > > > > if for 11.1 we already switch u-boot or not).
>> > > > > > I believe the change is in the u-boot port itself. However, I
>> > > > > > don't
>> > > > > > think it's a u-boot problem (IMHO), it's a u-boot build
>> > > > > > configuration
>> > > > > > problem. There are different board variants with different
>> > > > > > hardware
>> > > > > > layout. u-boot has code for it, but our build does not account
>> > > > > > for.
>> > > > > > Unless the scripts that build the 11.1 image use a different
>> > > > > > revision
>> > > > > > of the u-boot port, wouldn't it just use the current 2017.7
>> base?
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > I'm trying to figure out how to generate a u-boot with the
>> > > > > > correct
>> > > > > > SPL
>> > > > > > portion of u-boot. One could pull the SolidRun u-boot repo, or
>> go
>> > > > > > find
>> > > > > > the ports commit before the changeover and see if we can
>> generate
>> > > > > > the
>> > > > > > correct SPL.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > I looked at Mainline u-boot and there is a board directory for
>> > > > > > solid
>> > > > > > run.
>> > > > > > https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/board/solidrun/
>> mx6cu
>> > > > > > boxi
>> > > > > > /mx6cuboxi.c
>> > > > > > seems to support multiple memory configurations based on
>> defines,
>> > > > > > so
>> > > > > > this should just be a configuration problem.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > We clearly need to start supporting the lower spec'd SolidRun
>> > > > > > boards
>> > > > > > because this has come up a couple of times now since the
>> > > > > > changeover.
>> > > > > > It should be just a matter of creating a port that does the same
>> > > > > > thing
>> > > > > > but generates the correct SPL file? My SOM is a i2eX so I can't
>> > > > > > be
>> > > > > > too
>> > > > > > much help (and I've also over volunteered myself!).
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Russ
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > The old imx6 uboot ports generated a single copy of uboot that
>> > > > > would
>> > > > > boot dual and quad-core versions of both hummingboard and cubox
>> > > > > systems.  If the new uboot works only on quad core, that's another
>> > > > > regression.  It might be possible to extract the u-boot.imx file
>> > > > > from a
>> > > > > freebsd 10 image to get back to the old one.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Ooops.  Except it appears those no longer exist.
>> > > >
>> > > > Is this a loss of functionality when the changes were upstreamed? Is
>> > > > it a
>> > > > bad configuration on our part? Any idea what might be going on or
>> how
>> > > > to
>> > > > fix it?
>> > >
>> > > The vendor uboot worked well.  The generic mainline, apparently not so
>> > > much.  It may indicate that the vendor didn't upstream everything.  I
>> > > haven't worked much with the new imx6 uboot packages because for me
>> > > they're completely unusable because they lack support for netbooting.
>> > >  (If you feel tempted to say something about efi and netbooting,
>> please
>> > > provide links to how-to documentation at the very least, and an
>> example
>> > > that works for armv6 would be even better.)
>> > >
>> >
>> > I didn't think that we were enabling EFI + armv6 on anything yet by
>> > default...
>> >
>> > Can't help you there.
>> >
>> > Warner
>>
>>  We do, EFI is enabled by default in U-Boot on most of the boards.
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> And GENERIC actually supports that?
>

And more importantly, we have the right tooling to build the right images
for EFI booting?

Warner