[Arm-dev] Cubieboard5 performance

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Thu Aug 9 18:53:43 UTC 2018 


On 08/09/2018 12:30 PM, Pablo Sebastián Greco wrote:
>
> El 9/8/18 a las 12:31, Robert Moskowitz escribió:
>>
>>
>> On 08/09/2018 11:21 AM, arm_ml at rirasoft.de wrote:
>>> Am 2018-08-09 16:57, schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
>>>> On 08/09/2018 10:31 AM, arm_ml at rirasoft.de wrote:
>>>>> 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>
>>> snip
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> OK.  You are using the latest uboot.  Centos build only has 2018.03
>>>>
>>>> Another way is to copy the uboot from Fedora:
>>>>
>>>> /usr/share/uboot/Cubietruck_plus/
>>>>
>>>> and dd that onto the Centos 1804 image (why are you using the old 1611
>>>> image?  There were problems with it an Cubietruck+ as I recall).
>>>
>>> I'm using CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-Minimal-1611-CubieTruck.img.xz 
>>> because of the CubieTruck in the name. With the 
>>> CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-generic-Minimal-1804-sda.raw.xz the boot 
>>> process complains about missing vmlinuz-4.14.28-201.el7.centos.armv7hl
>>
>> Read the instructions on: 
>> https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/armhfp for 
>> installing Centos generic userland.
>>
>> But follow my recommendation to swipe the newer uboot from your 
>> Fedora-rawhide image, rather than installing the uboot-images on your 
>> system and only getting the 2018.03 version.
>>
>> It runs fine on my Cubieboard2 and Cubietruck.  I do not have a plus.
> Cubietruck plus is SoC A83T, and it doesn't work with our 2018.03 
> uboot, but it does with 2018.05


OK.  So after the dd of the generic image, dd the uboot from a Fedora 
image.  Then boot up.

>>
>>>>
>>>> Boot this and see what it does.  If it fails, then copy the dtb 
>>>> from Fedora:
>>>>
>>>> /usr/lib/modules/4.18.0-0.rc8.git0.1.fc29.armv7hl/dtb/sun8i-a83t-cubietruck-plus.dtb 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>
>>
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