[Arm-dev] Cubieboard5 performance

Thu Aug 9 14:31:24 UTC 2018

Am 2018-08-09 13:58, schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
> On 08/09/2018 07:34 AM, arm_ml at rirasoft.de wrote:
>> Am 2018-08-07 12:23, schrieb Pablo Sebastián Greco:
>>> <snip>
>>>> 
>>>> Hello Pablo,
>>>> 
>>>> I've bought this device 1 or 2 years ago, but didn't find any good 
>>>> OS (Fedora, CentOS) for that. How to get this board with your kernel 
>>>> running? Any tips or howto?
>>>> 
>>>> I also have 2 Cubietruck 3 with CentOS.
>>>> 
>>> Well, the easiest thing to do would be to just use Fedora Rawhide
>>> (current kernels have smp, ethernet, etc..., all but hdmi).
>>> WRT CentOS, I can think of two ways to do it, both require the 
>>> kernels
>>> I mentioned earlier in the thread.
>>> 1) (Easier)
>>>  - Prepare the image as if you where using your cubietruck 3
>>>  - boot that image and update (from the cubietruck 3)
>>>  - activate the repo and install the kernel
>>>  - change uboot to the cubietruck plus
>>>  - shutdown and move the image/sd to the new device.
>>> 
>>> 2) (Harder)
>>>  - Prepare the image for the cubietruck plus
>>>  - download the kernel rpms and copy them to the sd
>>>  - boot the cubietruck plus with that image (it has no ethernet, no
>>> wifi, and most likely no hdmi, so you'll have to do it via a serial
>>> console)
>>>  - login via console and manually install the kernel
>>>  - reboot
>>> 
>>> For both metods (and also for Fedora), there may be modules that are
>>> not loaded into initramfs, which makes it panic at boot.
>>> I usually add this to a .conf file in /etc/dracut.conf.d/
>>> add_drivers+=" phy-sun4i-usb sunxi-rsb axp20x-rsb axp20x-regulator
>>> axp20x-pek axp20x_ac_power axp20x_battery axp20x_usb_power
>>> axp288_fuel_gauge ac100 rtc-ac100"
>>> Some may not be needed anymore, and some may not be needed at all, 
>>> but
>>> hey, it works for me ;)
>>> 
>>> One last thing that also applies to Fedora and CentOS, you may notice
>>> that you get a random MAC for the ethernet every time you boot, you
>>> can fix that by adding "MACADDR=<mac>" to
>>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
>>> 
>>> HTH.
>>> 
>>> Pablo.
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> Hello Pablo,
>> 
>> thank you very much for these tipps. I'm now running 
>> Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-Rawhide-20180802.n.0-sda.raw.xz. I think, Fedora 
>> would be better for my need (pi-hole, DNS, Print-server, Time-server, 
>> ...)
> 
> I beg to differ.  Fedora roles versions every 6 months and EOLs a
> version in 2 years.  This means you are constantly upgrading versions
> of important servers.  Where as Centos has a 10yr EOL policy.
> 
> I only use Fedora for my notebook and when I REALLY need the current
> version of something (like openSSL 1.1.1 for EDDSA testing).
> 
> Get Fedora working.  Work it out, then switch to Centos for production.
> 
> Just my 5cent worth.
> 
>> 
>> As I can see, there is a EMMC-disc with 8 GB. Did you manage to boot 
>> from this disc? At the moment, there is a older installation from 
>> linaro.
>> 
>> [root at cubietruckplus ~]# lsblk
>> NAME         MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
>> mmcblk0      179:0    0   7.3G  0 disk
>> |-mmcblk0p1  179:1    0 111.9M  0 part
>> `-mmcblk0p2  179:2    0   7.1G  0 part
>> mmcblk0boot0 179:8    0     4M  1 disk
>> mmcblk0boot1 179:16   0     4M  1 disk
>> mmcblk1      179:24   0    29G  0 disk
>> |-mmcblk1p1  179:25   0    29M  0 part
>> |-mmcblk1p2  179:26   0   488M  0 part /boot
>> |-mmcblk1p3  179:27   0   244M  0 part [SWAP]
>> `-mmcblk1p4  179:28   0  28.2G  0 part /
>> zram0        252:0    0 954.6M  0 disk [SWAP]
>> [root at cubietruckplus ~]#
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Andreas
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Okay, I give CentOs on this device a try. What have I done:
1. write Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-Rawhide-20180802.n.0-sda.raw.xz on the 
SD-card
2. delete all 4 partions
3. mount CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-Minimal-1611-CubieTruck.img as loop 
device
4. create 3 new partions on SD-Card (same size as CentOS-Image)
5. copy 1. and 3. partion from CentOS to SD-Card
6. copy sun8i-a83t-cubietruck-plus.dtb From Fedora to 
/mnt/SDCard/1/dtb-4.4.34-201.el7.armv7hl/
7. boot from SD-Card

boot log:
U-Boot SPL 2018.09-rc1 (Jul 31 2018 - 12:18:07 +0000)
DRAM: 2048 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC1

U-Boot 2018.09-rc1 (Jul 31 2018 - 12:18:07 +0000) Allwinner Technology

CPU:   Allwinner A83T (SUN8I 1673)
Model: Cubietech Cubietruck Plus
I2C:   ready
DRAM:  2 GiB
MMC:   SUNXI SD/MMC: 0, SUNXI SD/MMC: 1
Loading Environment from FAT... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default 
environment

Failed (-5)
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   No ethernet found.
starting USB...
USB0:   failed to get usb PHY
Port not available.
USB1:   failed to get usb at 01c1a000 usb PHY
Port not available.
USB2:   failed to get usb at 01c1b000 usb PHY
Port not available.
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc 0:1...
Found /extlinux/extlinux.conf
Retrieving file: /extlinux/extlinux.conf
336 bytes read in 13 ms (24.4 KiB/s)
Ignoring unknown command: ui
Ignoring malformed menu command:  autoboot
Ignoring unknown command: totaltimeout
centos Options
1:      centos
Enter choice: 1:        centos
Retrieving file: /initramfs-4.4.34-201.el7.armv7hl.img
35020663 bytes read in 22174 ms (1.5 MiB/s)
Retrieving file: /vmlinuz-4.4.34-201.el7.armv7hl
6051744 bytes read in 620 ms (9.3 MiB/s)
append: enforcing=0 root=UUID=ad25a528-baf4-469c-bd12-5276e8f5f9ae
Retrieving file: 
/dtb-4.4.34-201.el7.armv7hl/sun8i-a83t-cubietruck-plus.dtb
548864 bytes read in 260 ms (2 MiB/s)
ERROR: Did not find a cmdline Flattened Device Tree
Could not find a valid device tree
SCRIPT FAILED: continuing...
Found U-Boot script /boot.scr
2 bytes read in 12 ms (0 Bytes/s)
## Executing script at 43100000
Wrong image format for "source" command
SCRIPT FAILED: continuing...
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc1(part 0) is current device
Scanning mmc 1:1...
starting USB...
USB0:   failed to get usb PHY
Port not available.
USB1:   failed to get usb at 01c1a000 usb PHY
Port not available.
USB2:   failed to get usb at 01c1b000 usb PHY
Port not available.
USB is stopped. Please issue 'usb start' first.
starting USB...
USB0:   failed to get usb PHY
Port not available.
USB1:   failed to get usb at 01c1a000 usb PHY
Port not available.
USB2:   failed to get usb at 01c1b000 usb PHY
Port not available.
No ethernet found.
missing environment variable: pxeuuid
Retrieving file: /extlinux/pxelinux.cfg/00000000
No ethernet found.
Retrieving file: /extlinux/pxelinux.cfg/0000000
No ethernet found.
Retrieving file: /extlinux/pxelinux.cfg/000000
No ethernet found.
Retrieving file: /extlinux/pxelinux.cfg/00000
No ethernet found.
Retrieving file: /extlinux/pxelinux.cfg/0000
No ethernet found.
Retrieving file: /extlinux/pxelinux.cfg/000
No ethernet found.
Retrieving file: /extlinux/pxelinux.cfg/00
No ethernet found.
Retrieving file: /extlinux/pxelinux.cfg/0
No ethernet found.
Retrieving file: /extlinux/pxelinux.cfg/default-arm-sunxi
No ethernet found.
Retrieving file: /extlinux/pxelinux.cfg/default-arm
No ethernet found.
Retrieving file: /extlinux/pxelinux.cfg/default
No ethernet found.
Config file not found
starting USB...
USB0:   failed to get usb PHY
Port not available.
USB1:   failed to get usb at 01c1a000 usb PHY
Port not available.
USB2:   failed to get usb at 01c1b000 usb PHY
Port not available.
No ethernet found.
No ethernet found

Greetings
Andreas