Re: HoneyComb first-boot notes

> >>>>>> I put an existing FreeBSD Optane into a just delivered
> >>>>>> HoneyComb, put in the RAM and the matching UEFI/ACPI
> >>>>>> image on a microsd card and put the card in the slot.
> >>>>>> I plugged in a USB3 Ethernet dongle, like I use on some
> >>>>>> other systems. Serial console via its USB port for such.
> >>>>>> (Optane instead of video card.) The UEFI/ACPI image was
> >>>>>> extracted from:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> https://solid-run-images.sos-de-fra-1.exo.io/LX2k/lx2160a_uefi/lx2160acex7_2000_700_2900_8_5_2_sd_81b4bbe.img.xz
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> in order to match the RAM and being based on the
> >>>>>> most current vintage at:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> https://github.com/SolidRun/lx2160a_uefi/
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> It booted.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Could you share whole dmesg?
> >>>>
> >>>> I've not done a "boot -v" . The below is actually from a
> >>>> captured serial console output. It is lightly edited. I
> >>>> have omitted nearly all loader output (and before).
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for sharing. Have you seen somewhere in output from UEFI (before
> >>> the loader) that "DPAA2 Management Complex initialized"?
> >>
> >> The text "DPAA2" does not occur in the captured output
> >> at all. However, that is my understanding of the expected
> >> status.
> >
> > That's strange because DPAA2 firmware should be included into UEFI built from
> > lx2160a_uefi:
> >
> > https://github.com/SolidRun/edk2-platforms/blob/edk2-stable202102-lx2160acex7/Platform/SolidRun/LX2160aCex7/LX2160aCex7.fdf#L252
> >
> > I assumed that there might be any output that firmware has been loaded correctly
> > at least.
>
> The edk2 build is not a debug build and, before putting up
> the menu, only outputs (I stripped some escape sequences):
>
>
> NOTICE:  UDIMM KHX2933C17S4/32G
> NOTICE:  DDR4 UDIMM with 2-rank 64-bit bus (x8)
>
> NOTICE:  64 GB DDR4, 64-bit, CL=17, ECC off, 256B, CS0+CS1
> NOTICE:  BL2: Booting BL31
> NOTICE:  BL31: v2.4(release):v2.0-4462-ge7b392d0a
> NOTICE:  BL31: Built : 07:47:10, May 31 2021
> NOTICE:  Welcome to lx2160acex7 BL31 Phase
>
> UEFI firmware built at 07:44:26 on May 31 2021. version:
> 202102
> SOC: LX2160ACE Rev2.0 (0x87360020)
> UEFI firmware (version 202102 built at 07:44:28 on May 31 2021)
> Tianocore/EDK2 firmware version 202102
> Press ESCAPE for boot options ....
>
> After the menu things start with basically:
>
> Consoles: serial port
> |/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\    Reading loader env vars from /efi/freebsd/loader.env
> Setting currdev to disk2p1:
> |/-\|/FreeBSD/arm64 EFI loader, Revision 1.1
>
>    Command line arguments: loader.efi
>    Image base: 0xedc89000
>    EFI version: 2.70
>    EFI Firmware: EDK II (rev 0.00)
>    Console: comconsole (0)
>    Load Path: \EFI\BOOT\BOOTAA64.EFI
> . . .
>
> One might be able to make inferences from the content
> of some potential menu displays. Otherwise, I expect
> that a debug build would be required to see DPAA2
> references.
>
> I do not expect one can validly infer much from the
> lack of "DPAA2" text in my boot sequence (with any
> capitalization vs. lower case status).
>
> ===
> Mark Millard
> marklmi at yahoo.com
> ( dsl-only.net went
> away in early 2018-Mar)
>

Could you share an output of "acpidump -d"?

Regards,
Dmitry