Re: 13.0-RELEASE Poor performance on Raspberry pi 3 B+

Mark Millard via freebsd-arm <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2021-Nov-26, at 10:35, Juan David Hurtado G <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you so much for your time you all.
> 
> New microSD arrived today. It is a SanDisk Ultra, see this on the Raspberry
> pi 3B+:
> 
> ```
> root@generic:~ # dmesg | grep -i mmc
> mmc0: <MMC/SD bus> on sdhci_bcm0
> mmcsd0: 32GB <SDHC SD32G 8.5 SN A0169EA9 MFG 04/2021 by 3 SD> at mmc0
> 50.0MHz/4bit/65535-block
> ```
> 
> 50 MHz !! What a relief.
> 
> Other OS like RaspiOS and NetBSD runs well on the other cards, not sure
> why. I still don't understand why sandisk is the only brand that works for
> FreeBSD apparently.

I have non-sandisk microsd cards that work fine --and other sandisk
models of microsd cards that also work. Mostly I use non-ultra sandisk
ones as it turns out.

But once I could boot via USB I no longer use microsd cards very
often in the RPi*'s that can boot from USB without a microsd card
involved.

> I'm willing to give more information if needed or even to open a ticket in
> bugzilla if you find it useful.

It does not seem that my direction of activity is
relevant if it is media-type specific for the behavior.
So I'll not be experimenting further with any RPi4B's
(or otherwise).

But if you make a bugzilla report, various things about
your RPi* configurations that you have reported would be
appropriate to include as context.

> Have a great weekend !!
> 
> PS: I've also bought the usb ttl cable if I can give any more information
> using the other card via serial console.

There are various settings for getting more debug
output on the serial console for the RPi* stages
of things. Some go in the config.txt but one goes
in the eeprom content. As stands it does not seem
that such would have helped for the specific problem:
The problem is later, after the RPi* eeprom and
firmware stages.

You may never need such, but at least you are forwarned
about the possibility if you think it might help
something in the future.


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