Re: Marvell ARMADA 7K/8K and MACCHIATObin support

2019-10-19 Thread Corsaire01
Hi everyone, For anyone interested here is my console log after I upgraded my install to freshly announced OpenBSD 6.6. Some interesting bits here, sfp ports are now seems to be seen as sfp0 sfp1 sfp2, but still not usable yet. BootROM - 2.03 Starting CP-0 IOROM 1.07 Booting from SD 0 (0x29) Foun

Re: Marvell ARMADA 7K/8K and MACCHIATObin support

2019-09-27 Thread Corsaire01
Hi everyone, It's been a while, any news regarding the progress on the Macchiatobin support ? -- Sent from: http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/openbsd-port-arm-f206279.html

Re: Marvell ARMADA 7K/8K and MACCHIATObin support

2019-05-03 Thread Corsaire01
You can see the difference here in kernel boot message doesn't work pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 em0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82571EB" rev 0x06: intx, address 00:15:17:2e:8a:38 em1 at pci1 dev 0 function 1 "Intel 82571EB" rev 0x06: intx, address 00:15:17:2e:8a:39 works pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 em0 at pci

Re: Marvell ARMADA 7K/8K and MACCHIATObin support

2019-05-03 Thread Corsaire01
> Was the other em(4) a dual port card as well? Yes both are dual port cards. -- Sent from: http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/openbsd-port-arm-f206279.html

Re: Marvell ARMADA 7K/8K and MACCHIATObin support

2019-05-03 Thread Corsaire01
Since it cost only a few bucks and I could have same-day delivery I bought a Intel 82575EB based card. This time it works ! here is the output: pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 em0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82575EB" rev 0x01: msi, address 00:1b:21:23:08:0b em1 at pci1 dev 0 function 1 "Intel 82575EB" re

Re: Marvell ARMADA 7K/8K and MACCHIATObin support

2019-05-02 Thread Corsaire01
A verbose output should be better -- Sent from: http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/openbsd-port-arm-f206279.html

Re: Marvell ARMADA 7K/8K and MACCHIATObin support

2019-05-02 Thread Corsaire01
Oh, by the way some kernel boot up bits too : -- Sent from: http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/openbsd-port-arm-f206279.html

Re: Marvell ARMADA 7K/8K and MACCHIATObin support

2019-05-02 Thread Corsaire01
Hi Otto, thanks for your input. I found the bits regarding what you said there: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mailing.openbsd.bugs/Fg0LJlmJh28 https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/sys/dev/pci/if_em.c But it seems the problem is known and addressed since 2012, if I read well ? Does

Re: Marvell ARMADA 7K/8K and MACCHIATObin support

2019-05-02 Thread Corsaire01
Hi Mark, thanks for your input. In deed the new UEFI firmware is much better. Things moving on :) However I stumbled on a strange.. bug/behavior ? I put a Intel EXPI9402PT network card in the macchiatobin, it is an Intel PRO 100 series card and it is being recognized out of the box in the kernel

Re: Marvell ARMADA 7K/8K and MACCHIATObin support

2019-05-01 Thread Corsaire01
Hello all, it's been quite a while now so I wanted to get back on track with the macchiatobin and see it the support got any better with openbsd 6.5. Alas, no progress on sensible things, the biggest one being the network. The install itself is not straightforward either. Here are the steps if so

Re: Marvell ARMADA 7K/8K and MACCHIATObin support

2018-10-26 Thread Corsaire01
Hi Mark, One question regarding your build. >I have made working firmware available at: > >https://sibelius.home.xs4all.nl/firmware/armada-8040-mcbin/flash-image.bin Could you give us the procedure you used to create the EFI image ? Thanks for your time. -- Sent from: http://openbsd-archive

Re: Marvell ARMADA 7K/8K and MACCHIATObin support

2018-10-22 Thread Corsaire01
Hello again Mark, Some progress here. You were right about the USB trouble. Instead of a USB key I tried to put a sata disk on a USB tray and ran your image, but it failed too. same as before no fs0: available. Then I too the drive out of the usb tray and put it on one of the sata plug on the ma

Re: Marvell ARMADA 7K/8K and MACCHIATObin support

2018-10-21 Thread Corsaire01
Mark Kettenis wrote > My experience with USB on this port aren't great. I think there are some > issues with powering the ports. Using a powered hub might help. I tryed with a USB hub, to no avail... no change :( -- Sent from: http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/openbsd-port-arm-f20627

Re: Marvell ARMADA 7K/8K and MACCHIATObin support

2018-10-21 Thread Corsaire01
> It seems some information has been stripped from your mail. Yup, dunno why tough. I included a but more console output, but anyway the thing is -I can't see the USB key with your archive -It crashes at loading the dtb/EFI payload with the marvell provided U-boot > My experience with USB on t

Re: Marvell ARMADA 7K/8K and MACCHIATObin support

2018-10-20 Thread Corsaire01
Hello Mark, I am another possessor of a Macchiatobin trying to run openbsd. However, I am not a happy camper since I am still unable to make it boot... I followed your carefully written procedure but fails miserably after entering the UEFI. Here is the UEFI Shell prompt I get after booting the