Re: Nanopi R5S support and build guide

On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 1:55 PM Matheus <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On May 5, 2023 11:03:47 PM GMT-03:00, Ganbold Tsagaankhuu <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 6:03 AM Matheus <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On May 5, 2023 2:23:15 AM GMT-03:00, Ganbold Tsagaankhuu <
> >> [email protected]> wrote:
> >> >On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 10:05 PM Matheus <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> > On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 6:50 PM Matheus <[email protected]>
> >wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> On May 1, 2023 1:47:12 PM GMT-03:00, "Søren Schmidt" <
> >> >> >> [email protected]> wrote:
> >> >> >> >> On 30 Apr 2023, at 23.44, Matheus <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> Hi,
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> I am trying to have FreeBSD 14 running on this SBC. I could
> >not
> >> >find
> >> >> >> >any guides in how to build images for it. I found the
> >> >> >> >people.freebsd.org/~sos/ site that has some images, and one
> >for
> >> >it,
> >> >> but
> >> >> >> >that seldom boots my board, and when it did, there was no
> >console
> >> >over
> >> >> >> >serial or vga.
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> If anyone can give any hints. Unfortunately my dev skills
> >are
> >> >not
> >> >> >> >good. But I can test and help build once I figure out how :)
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >Hi Matheus
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >The image at
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >
> https://people.freebsd.org/~sos/ARM64/current-RK356X-images/nano5-sdcard.img.gz
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >for the Nanopi R5S does indeed boot with both HDMI output and
> >> >serial
> >> >> >> >console (1500000baud).
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >The boot loader (EDK2 in FDT mode) is very picky on SD card
> >> >quality
> >> >> >> >though from experience, I works for me with Sandisk Ultra /
> >> >Extreme
> >> >> >> >cards but not with Samsung and cheap noname SD cards YMMV.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Hi Søren,
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> I had really issues on sd carda. I got it to boot once, but I
> >was
> >> >> >> printing
> >> >> >> characters on screen at one per second. So I rebooted and don't
> >> >remember
> >> >> >> why rewrote the card. I can't boot anymore. Tried different
> >cards,
> >> >> >> SanDisk
> >> >> >> ultra, no luck.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> I can boot an 13.2 image from the guy at personalbsd though.
> >But
> >> >there I
> >> >> >> have just one ethernet.
> >> >> >> On 13.2 I cannot list the ethernets nics using pciconf -lv,
> >> >including
> >> >> >> the
> >> >> >> one that works. Is this expected?
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Yes. Did you try
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >
> https://personalbsd.org/download/Business/FreeBSD-aarch64-14.0-CURRENT-NanoPi-R5S-20230402.img.xz
> >> >> > ?
> >> >> > This image should have support for pcie and all ethernet should
> >> >work
> >> >> IIRC.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Ganbold
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi Ganbold,
> >> >>
> >> >> I tried it and other 2 images and no success, including the image
> >> >pointed
> >> >> by Soren. Unfortunately I just got to boot one image from 14 but I
> >> >> overwritten the sd card and can't remember which sd card and image
> >:(
> >> >>
> >> >> The only image I can make it boot is from 13.2R, and I got it
> >> >installed
> >> >> fine (using an EFI image from personalbsd from March 23).
> >> >>
> >> >> Will wait for the next round of images for 14.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >Above image works for me:
> >> >
> >> >root@NanoPi-R5S:~ # ifconfig
> >> >re0: flags=8803<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> >> >
> >options=201b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,WOL_MAGIC>
> >> >        ether 62:73:64:e2:d4:87
> >> >        inet 192.168.111.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast
> >192.168.111.255
> >> >        media: Ethernet autoselect
> >> >        status: no carrier
> >> >        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> >> >re1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
> >> >1500
> >> >
> >options=201b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,WOL_MAGIC>
> >> >        ether 62:73:64:9a:5e:55
> >> >        inet 192.168.2.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
> >> >        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
> >> >        status: active
> >> >        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> >> >eq0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
> >> >1500
> >> >        options=80008<VLAN_MTU,LINKSTATE>
> >> >        ether 22:07:01:bb:41:76
> >> >        inet 192.168.1.202 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast
> >192.168.1.255
> >> >        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
> >> >        status: active
> >> >        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> >> >lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
> >> >
> >options=680003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
> >> >        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
> >> >        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
> >> >        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> >> >        groups: lo
> >> >        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> >> >root@NanoPi-R5S:~ # uname -an
> >> >FreeBSD NanoPi-R5S 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #0
> >> >main-n261950-4aeb939ecf8b-dirty: Sun Apr  2 17:42:01 MSK 2023
> >> >[email protected]
> >>
>
> >:/usr/crochet/work/obj/usr/crochet/src-current-14.0/arm64.aarch64/sys/EXPERT
> >> >arm64
> >> >root@NanoPi-R5S:~ # kldstat
> >> >Id Refs Address                Size Name
> >> > 1    8 0xffff000000000000  10cb350 kernel
> >> > 2    1 0xffff0000010cd000    a9508 if_re.ko
> >> > 3    1 0xffff0000c9e00000    24000 fdescfs.ko
> >> > 4    1 0xffff0000c9e24000    22000 mac_ntpd.ko
> >> >root@NanoPi-R5S:~ #
> >> >
> >> >Ganbold
> >>
> >> Hi Ganbold and others,
> >>
> >> I gave another try today and I got to see some stuff on the serial
> >console
> >> but the serial terminal itself is not usable. It prints
> >unrecognizable
> >> characters, but I could recognize the red beastie logo.
> >> On the hdmi screen I have no output. Can you confirm the serial speed
> >> line?
> >> It was 115200 when I saw all that, and then tried 1500000 and despite
> >it
> >> was printing something that looks like the boot, just weird
> >characters
> >> appeared.
> >
> >
> >With
> >
> https://personalbsd.org/download/Business/FreeBSD-aarch64-14.0-CURRENT-NanoPi-R5S-20230402.img.xz
> >image
> >I use 115200.
> >
> >Ganbold
>
> Thanks. Tried earlier but no luck.
>
> Could you send me a dmesg? I think much of it is in the acpi/dtb issue. I
> would like to see how your dmesg shows.
>

Here it is:

https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=7129

Ganbold



>
> Does it have regular hdmi output? As there is in 13.2?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matheus
>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks again,
> >>
> >> Matheus
> >>
> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks,
> >> >>
> >> >> matheus
> >> >>
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> I have little understanding of the arch, so my progress is much
> >> >slow.
> >> >> >> I got some dmesg from OpenBSD people where the nics show in
> >> >ifconfig.
> >> >> >> But
> >> >> >> I couldn't get mine to behave this way. I can install though,
> >> >using USB
> >> >> >> nic.
> >> >> >> I will try to buy a new sd card from the good list you pointed.
> >> >> >> Another thing, I got the feeling that when I dd'ed the image
> >using
> >> >the
> >> >> >> SD
> >> >> >> card slot on the notebook it worked and when was through usb
> >> >adapter did
> >> >> >> not. Does it make sense? Using Linux mint as host for this.
> >> >> >> Thanks so much for the answer and help,
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Matheus
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >You can build a stock ARM64 generic kernel and most things
> >will
> >> >be
> >> >> >> >usable, however as Ganbold wrote the DTS files is not in there
> >> >yet (and
> >> >> >> >not even in linux where our DTS files are fetched from).
> >> >> >> >However the EDK2 boot loader provided (and used in above
> >image)
> >> >on
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >>
> >>
> >>>https://people.freebsd.org/~sos/ARM64/EDK2-RK356X/NANOPI-R5S_EFI.itbï
> >> >> ¿¼
> >> >> >> >NANOPI-R5S_EFI
> >> >> >> >File · 1,7 MB
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >does hand over the “right†DTB file if you want to
> >experiment.
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >If you need the used DTS file and build guidance let me know
> >in
> >> >private
> >> >> >> >mail...
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >--
> >> >> >> >Søren Schmidt
> >> >> >> >[email protected] / [email protected]
> >> >> >> >"So much code to hack, so little time"
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> ---
> >> >> >> "We will call you Cygnus,
> >> >> >> the God of balance you shall be."
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> "We will call you Cygnus,
> >> >> the God of balance you shall be."
> >> >> ------------------------------
> >> >> "We will call you Cygnus,
> >> >> the God of balance you shall be."
> >>
> >> ---
> >> "We will call you Cygnus,
> >> the God of balance you shall be."
> >>
>
> ---
> "We will call you Cygnus,
> the God of balance you shall be."
>