Re: vmm (bhyve) on GICv2

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https://pine64.com/product/quartz64-model-a-8gb-single-board-computer/

On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 9:20 PM John F Carr <[email protected]> wrote:

> > On May 22, 2024, at 13:20, Mario Marietto <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Can someone confirm that bhyve works ok on the RockPro64 (RK3399) ? Has
> bhyve been patched in relation to this bug :
> >
> > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=277559
> >
> > ?
> >
> > I read that there is a huge amount of work to do on the RPI5 before it
> works with FreeBSD. And anyway,it does not support bhyve. So if I will buy
> a soc,it will be the RockPro64....
>
> The RockPro64 should be usable for development, not production use
> of virtual machines.  The kernel sometimes locks up the first time the
> vmm module is loaded.  Once the module loads it can be unloaded
> and reloaded without risk.
>
> I was able to boot FreeBSD-13.3-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64.raw in bhyve
> on my RockPro64 with this script:
>
> NCPU=1
> MEM=384m
> DISK0=/dev/nda0s4
> VMNAME=thirteen
> bhyve -c "${NCPU:?}" -m "${MEM:?}" \
> -s 0:0,hostbridge \
> -s 1:0,virtio-blk,"${DISK0:?}" \
> -o bootrom=/usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-bhyve-arm64/u-boot.bin \
> -o rtc.use_localtime=false \
> -o console=stdio \
> -o config.dump=false \
> -o acpi_tables=true \
> "${VMNAME:?}"
>
> I had copied the image to /dev/nda0s4.  It should work just as well with
> the
> regular file after "virtio-blk".
>
> Some observations:
>
> 1. There is no clock visible to the guest OS:
>
> Warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set
> accurately
>
> 2. The RockPro system has two types of cores.  One has a physically
> indexed I-cache,
> the other virtually indexed.  The virtual CPU reports a virtually indexed
> cache.
>
> CPU  0: ARM Foundation-Model r0p0 affinity:  0
>                    Cache Type = <64 byte D-cacheline,64 byte
> I-cacheline,VIPT ICache,64 byte ERG,64 byte CWG>
>
> I think this will cause correct behavior despite being technically wrong.
>
> I have a Quartz64, a newer Pine64 SBC, but I have not yet tried to install
> BSD on it.
>
> John Carr
>
>

-- 
Mario.