RE: Re: [discuss] RiscV Illumos port

[Garrett D'Amore]

Just watching this – I’m wondering how the SDcard presents to the system.   If it comes in as an SDHCI instance, then this almost certainly will not work.  I wrote the code for SDHCI (a million years ago it seems), and I don’t think anyone ever considered making booting work over it (it certainly never entered into my thinking).  The appearance of “blkdev” in the device path makes me think this is likely the case.  (This is also super surprising, since I didn’t think anyone was using the SDHCI code anymore – all modern laptops use USB these days – it’s been about a decade since I’ve seen a system with an SDHCI implementation.)   I am not even sure if it is possible to use blkdev to boot.  (Maybe someone has made this work with NVME – again when I wrote that code I never considered using it for boot devices.)   If instead this presents as USB, then there is much greater hope.   Garrett     From: Stephan Althaus Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2020 11:09 AM To: discuss@lists.illumos.org Subject: Re: [discuss] RiscV Illumos port   Hello!   Just a shot in the dark, but are you shure that the sdcard device is visible to the loader? As i understand most illumos systems boot via SATA or SCSI, or in case of the install medium via USB..   Greetings, Stephan   On 05/03/20 18:10, Hayashi Naoyuki wrote: > Hello >  > If you're doing what the wiki says to do, the kernel and boot_archive > will be loaded from zfs, not pcfs. > What steps did you take? > What error messages are being output? >  > Best regards, >  > Hayashi Naoyuki >  > On 2020/05/02 5:51, will...@welliver.org wrote: >> Good afternoon! >>  >> I realize this conversation has been quiet for a while, so apologies >> for waking it back up. Before I start asking for help, I'd like to >> extend my appreciation for all of the work that went into this and >> for making this available... being able to see exactly what makes a >> port tick has been very enlightening! >>  >> I've been able to build and network boot an odroid-c2 using the >> 03/2020 branch and a NFS root. Note: I did have one or two problems >> getting the build to complete, but I suspect that may be due to not >> running a parallel build. I've taken some notes and if the problems >> persist I'll elaborate on them. >>  >> More importantly, has anyone managed to get this port to run with the >> root on the SD card? I've tried unsuccessfully on two different C2s >> and I'm pretty sure the hardware is okay, as u-boot loads up fine and >> can browse/load the kernel and boot archive from the pcfs partition. >> Before I expend too much more time I'd like to know if I'm an outlier >> and/or doing something wrong. >>  >> Thanks in advance! >>  >> Bill >> *illumos <https://illumos.topicbox.com/latest>* / illumos-discuss / >> see discussions <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + >> participants <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + >> delivery options >> <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription> Permalink >> <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T51b9dfae3816d400-M1e3698030297d377f8e5e961> >>  >  > ------------------------------------------ > illumos: illumos-discuss > Permalink: > https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T51b9dfae3816d400-M93832494b4bf8fb7bf0a5d96 > Delivery options: > https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription       ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T51b9dfae3816d400-Mb10ce6ba9e3944f2cbb18440 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription   illumos / illumos-discuss / see discussions + participants + delivery options Permalink