Re: I ported the panfrost driver on FreeBSD 15.0 for my radxa zero 3W board,BUT....

On Nov 12, 2025, at 23:44, Mario Marietto <[email protected]> wrote:

> mountroot> ?
> 
> List of GEOM managed disk devices :
> 
> Nothing
> 
> DMESG :
> 
> 1) https://pastebin.com/JkuZd9aS (don't know why it chosen to load the file kernel-covacat)
> 
> 2) I have deleted the kernel called "kernel-covacat" from /boot/kernel to force it to grab the file "kernel",but then it says that it can't find it :  https://pastebin.com/1niPssKh


That https://pastebin.com/1niPssKh shows:

. . .
    • Setting currdev to disk0p4:
    • Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
    • /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x318 text=0xa62b58 text=0x281520 data=0x16b460 data=0x
    • 0+0x2c3000 0x8+0x160950+0x8+0x189eff\
    • /etc/hostid size=0x25
    • /boot/entropy size=0x1000
. . .
    • /boot/modules/ums.ko text=0x26c3 text=0x252c data=0x7a0+0x4 0x8+0x1110+0x8+0xbce
    •  
    • loading required module 'kernel'
    • can't find 'kernel'
. . .

The first part is the FreeBSD kernel loading. I've
no clue what would lead to the later:

loading required module 'kernel'

since the FreeBSD kernel had already been loaded
and I do not see any sort of unload notice for
that prior load.


Side note: the screen images would not allow
discovering the above. This pastebin, with its
much longer hsitory coverage, is much more useful
overall.


> Tried to play with the linker.hints file :
> 
> 
> 
> marietto# mount -t ufs /dev/da6p4 /mnt/da6p4
> marietto# cd /mnt/da6p4/boot/kernel
> marietto# mv linker.hints linker_.hints
> marietto# kldxref /mnt/da6p4/boot/kernel
> marietto# cd /
> marietto# umount /dev/da6p4
> 
> loading required module 'kernel'                                                                    
> module 'kernel' exists but with wrong version                                                       
> ?c                                
> 
> mountroot: waiting for device /dev/gpt/root
> mounting from ufs:/dev/gpt/root failed with error 19
> mountroot> ?
> 
> List of GEOM managed disk devices :
> 
> NOTHING.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM Andrew Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2025-11-02 16:13, Mario Marietto wrote:
> > Hello to everyone.
> > 
> >  I ported the panfrost driver on FreeBSD 15.0 for my radxa zero 3W
> > board. I mean,I've been able to fix all the errors I found and I
> > compiled correctly the kernel and the modules. Unfortunately,when I
> > tried to boot it,this is what happened :
> > 
> > It is stuck there. My sensation is that the problem can be fixed
> > easily. But I need to understand why. What could be the reason,what to
> > try and so on.
> > 
> > Anyway,I want to share the source code of the kernel ,the compiled
> > kernel and the modules,if someone wants to study the code and try on
> > his board :
> > 
> > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yn--aq1QxgIOY23eIF8Crdadv9sWkFCR/view?usp=drive_link
> 
> Can you post this as a git repo? The tarball of sys seems to be 
> inconsistent with any FreeBSD branch which makes it difficult to see 
> what you've added/changed.


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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com