ThunderX2 support in FreeBSD/arm64

[Shawn Webb]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 12:51:26PM -0800, Jayachandran C. wrote:
> (Was AFK for a while, sorry for the late reply)
> Hi Ed,
> 
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 11:15 AM Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 21:51, Jayachandran C. <jchandra at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Over the last few weeks I have committed changes for a few outstanding
> > > items needed for ThunderX2 support in FreeBSD/arm64.
> >
> > I see that D10082, D10083, D10084 are still open, awaiting review.
> > Should I apply them to my test tree?
> >
> > My current status - loader claims to start the kernel, but I see no
> > further output. Can you share the kernel config file you used (or
> > perhaps a git tree you built from)?
> 
> There seems to be 2 issues here - both of them happen when the AMI
> firmware is used.
> The first issue is that the efi framebuffer does not work, and I am
> not able to select the serial console with AMI firmware. The second
> issue is that the on-chip SATA controller is not setup correctly by
> the AMI firmware and can cause a 'NBU BAR error' failure.
> 
> I have uploaded a test firmware and instructions to
> https://people.freebsd.org/~jchandra/testfw/ which should boot FreeBSD
> fine. This is an internal build which does not have both the problems
> above. Let me know if this works, and I will try to push the fixes to
> AMI.

Hey Jarachandran,

Could you provide a sha256 hash of the uploaded firmware?

Thanks,

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