Booting instructions for FreeBSD on Cavium Octeon

Here's a quick note on how to net boot the Cavium EBT3000 board running uboot. The Cavium kernel is still a work in progress as I restore all the fixes I made to an earlier version of this code that I was unable to release.

You'll need to break into the boot sequence for this board. Usually that's just hitting ^C before uboot starts to load the kernel.

Once you have a uboot prompt, similar to below, you'll be ready to start to fix the environment for netbooting.

U-Boot 1.1.1 (Development build) (Build time: Jan 26 2007 - 14:06:35)

EBT3000 board revision major:4, minor:0, serial #: xxxxxxxxx
OCTEON CN38XX-NSP revision: 1, Core clock: 500 MHz, DDR clock: 266 MHz (532 Mhz data rate)
DRAM: 2048 MB
Flash: 8 MB
IPD backpressure workaround verified, took 14 loops
Clearing DRAM........ done
BIST check passed.
Net: octeth0, octeth1, octeth2, octeth3
Bus 0 (CF Card): OK

ide 0: Model: SanDisk SDCFB-1024 Firm: Rev 0.00 Ser#: X0308 20050726142909
Type: Removable Hard Disk
Capacity: 977.4 MB = 0.9 GB (2001888 x 512)

Octeon ebt3800#

It couldn't be easier to setup for netbooting. You'll need to setup an tftp server. I had to install the FreeBSD port from net/freebsd-tftpd to get a working tftpd, since there appears to be some issues with the stock FreeBSD tftpd. Once I had that, I set different addresses like so:

set ipaddr 10.0.0.30
set netmask 255.255.255.0
set serverip 10.0.0.10
set gatewayip 10.0.0.1
set bootdelay 0
saveenv

This sets the board's address to 10.0.0.30/24. 10.0.0.1 is the router to the other networks. The tftp command will now use tftp from host 10.0.0.10 to get the named file. saveenv makes these setting permanent. I usually reboot at this point to make sure that the settings took.

Next, you'll need to know how to load a FreeBSD kernel. This is also fairly straight-forward, although finding the right addresses took a bit of guesswork. You are tftping the ELF kernel to a chunk of memory. The bootoctlinux command then takes that image and copies it to the right place and starts executing it. So you have to be sure whereever you load it doesn't clash with uboot's memory use or with where the kernel will ultimately reside.

tftp a800000 kernel.octean1-32
bootoctlinux a800000 numcores=1

As with any u-boot platform, it can often be useful to define macro commands. I did the following:

set fbsd 'tftp a800000 kernel.octeon1-32; bootoctlinux a800000 numcores=1'

so that I don't have to keep typing it over and over. I can just type

run fbsd

to run my next test.

The Cavium port is in a state of flux right now. The latest status as I am preparing this to be published is that there's an interrupt problem that's causing the serial port to be non-responsive after going to multi-user (eg, the login: prompt) and also the network stops responding. Also, I have to comment out the enableintr() call in mips_vector_init around line 365 of sys/mips/mips/machdep.c. I'm trying to hammer these issues out, and I think they are related. Earlier versions of the code worked with earlier versions of FreeBSD, so I'm sure this is just a shift in interfaces that needs to be accounted for.

Here's the latest slightly trimmed log from a boot:

U-Boot 1.1.1 (Development build) (Build time: Jan 26 2007 - 14:06:35)

EBT3000 board revision major:4, minor:0, serial #: xxxxxxxxx
OCTEON CN38XX-NSP revision: 1, Core clock: 500 MHz, DDR clock: 266 MHz (532 Mhz data rate)
DRAM: 2048 MB
Flash: 8 MB
IPD backpressure workaround verified, took 32 loops
Clearing DRAM........ done
BIST check passed.
Net: octeth0, octeth1, octeth2, octeth3
Bus 0 (CF Card): OK

ide 0: Model: 512MB CKS Firm: 2N3-0925 Ser#: 2435E7C34A52930007
Type: Removable Hard Disk
Capacity: 491.6 MB = 0.4 GB (1006992 x 512)
Octeon ebt3000# print
bootdelay=0
baudrate=115200
download_baudrate=115200
ls=fatls ide 0
nuke_env=protect off BFBFE000 BFBFffff; erase BFBFE000 BFBFffff
autoload=n
ipaddr=10.0.0.31
gatewayip=10.0.0.1
netmask=255.255.255.0
serverip=10.0.0.16
fbsd=tftp a800000 kernel.octeon1-32; bootoctlinux a800000 numcores=1
fbsd_cf=fatload ide 0 a800000 kernel.imp; bootoctlinux a800000 numcores=1
coremask_override=0xffff
numcores=16
stdin=serial
stdout=serial
stderr=serial

Environment size: 1274/8188 bytes
Octeon ebt3000# run fbsd
octeth0: Down 10Mbs Half duplex, (port 16)
Using octeth0 device
TFTP from server 10.0.0.16; our IP address is 10.0.0.31
Filename 'kernel.octeon1-32'.
Load address: 0xa800000
Loading: octeth0: Up 100Mbs Half duplex, (port 16)
########################
done
Bytes transferred = 3370489 (336df9 hex)
argv[2]: numcores=1
ELF file is 32 bit
Skipping non LOAD program header (type 0x6)
Skipping non LOAD program header (type 0x3)
Skipping non LOAD program header (type 0x70000000)
Allocated memory for ELF segment: addr: 0x1000000, size 0x295a60
Loading .text @ 0x81000000 (2064384 bytes)
Loading .MIPS.stubs @ 0x811f8000 (16 bytes)
Loading .rodata @ 0x811fa000 (33248 bytes)
Loading .reginfo @ 0x812021e0 (24 bytes)
Loading .rodata.str1.4 @ 0x812021f8 (189300 bytes)
Loading set_sysctl_set @ 0x8123056c (3496 bytes)
Loading set_sysinit_set @ 0x81231314 (1684 bytes)
Loading set_sysuninit_set @ 0x812319a8 (952 bytes)
Loading .interp @ 0x81231d60 (13 bytes)
Loading .dynsym @ 0x81231d70 (78320 bytes)
Loading .dynstr @ 0x81244f60 (72163 bytes)
Loading .hash @ 0x81256944 (35984 bytes)
Loading set_kdb_dbbe_set @ 0x8125f5d4 (8 bytes)
Loading set_modmetadata_set @ 0x8125f5dc (288 bytes)
Loading set_cons_set @ 0x8125f6fc (8 bytes)
Loading .data @ 0x8125f704 (116476 bytes)
Loading set_pcpu @ 0x8127be00 (3136 bytes)
Loading .got @ 0x8127ca40 (5296 bytes)
Loading .rld_map @ 0x8127def0 (4 bytes)
Loading .sdata @ 0x8127def4 (12 bytes)
Clearing .bss @ 0x8127df00 (97120 bytes)
## Loading Linux kernel with entry point: 0x81000000 ...
Bootloader: Done loading app on coremask: 0x1
Boot Descriptor Ver: 6 -> 1/2 CPU clock: 500MHz
Dram: 2048 MB Board Type: 2 Revision: 4/0
Octeon Chip: 0 Rev 0/0 Mac Address 00.0F.B7.10.1B.32 (14)
octeon_dram == 80000000
reduced to ram: 2048 MBReal memory bytes is 7ffff000
phys_avail[0] = 1296000 phys_avail[1] = fffffff
realmem_bytes is now at 5ffff000
Next block of memory goes from 20000000 to 7ffff000

Total DRAM Size 0x80000000
Bank 0 = 0x 1296000 -> 0x FFFFFFF
Bank 1 = 0x20000000 -> 0x7FFFF000

physmem: 0x6ed69Cache info:
picache_stride = 4096
picache_loopcount = 8
pdcache_stride = 128
pdcache_loopcount = 64
cpu0: Cavium processor v1.0
MMU: Standard TLB, 32 entries
L1 i-cache: 4 ways of 64 sets, 128 bytes per line
L1 d-cache: 64 ways of 1 sets, 128 bytes per line
Config1=0xbe3303da
Config3=0x80
Physical memory chunk(s):
0x1296000 - 0xfffefff, 248942592 bytes (60777 pages)
0x20000000 - 0x7fffefff, 1610608640 bytes (393215 pages)
Maxmem is 0x7ffff000
KDB: debugger backends: ddb
KDB: current backend: ddb
hz=100 cyl_per_hz:250000 cyl_per_usec:250 freq:250000000 cyl_per_hz:2500000 cyl_per_sec:250000000
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FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #141 r202986:202997M: Mon Jan 25 20:07:07 MST 2010
imp@paco-paco.bsdimp.com:/tmp/imp/be-obj/mips/pe/imp/svn/head/sys/OCTEON1-32 mips
real memory = 1859555328 (1815972K bytes)
Physical memory chunk(s):
0x013ab000 - 0x0fffefff, 247808000 bytes (60500 pages)
0x20000000 - 0x7d830fff, 1568870400 bytes (383025 pages)
avail memory = 1813180416 (1729MB)
mem:
nfslock: pseudo-device
null:
nexus0:
Compact flash found in bootbus region 3 (8 bit).
rgmii0: on nexus0
rgmx0: Ethernet address: 00:0f:b7:10:1b:32
rgmx0: type (null), full duplex
rgmx1: Ethernet address: 00:0f:b7:10:1b:33
rgmx1: type (null), full duplex
rgmx2: Ethernet address: 00:0f:b7:10:1b:34
rgmx2: type (null), full duplex
rgmx3: Ethernet address: 00:0f:b7:10:1b:35
rgmx3: type (null), full duplex
rgmii0: [FILTER]
cf0: on nexus0
clock0: on nexus0
clock0: [FILTER]
obio0 at mem 0x1 flags 0x1 on nexus0
uart1: on obio0
uart1: [FILTER]
uart1: fast interrupt
uart1: console (115200,n,8,1)
uart0: on obio0
uart0: [FILTER]
uart0: fast interrupt
uart0: console (115200,n,8,1)
Device configuration finished.
Reducing kern.maxvnodes 117045 -> 100000
Timecounter "MIPS32" frequency 250000000 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
GEOM: cf0: partition 2 does not start on a track boundary.
GEOM: cf0: partition 2 does not end on a track boundary.
GEOM: cf0: partition 1 does not start on a track boundary.
GEOM: cf0: partition 1 does not end on a track boundary.
GEOM: cf0s2: geometry does not match label (64h,32s != 16h,63s).
Trying to mount root from ufs:cf0s2a
WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set accurately
start_init: trying /sbin/init
Setting hostuuid: 1c99760e-1dd2-11b2-bd6a-00156dc12838.
Setting hostid: 0xb0f278c1.
No suitable dump device was found.
Entropy harvesting:.
Starting file system checks:
t_delta 16.010fac783006c1a6 too long
/dev/cf0s2a: 11100 files, 256973 used, 150946 free (426 frags, 18815 blocks, 0.1% fragmentation)
Mounting local file systems:.
t_delta 15.fece5003dd62224a too short
Setting hostname: ebt3000.
SIOCSTIFFLAGS UP/Running
Starting Network: lo0 rgmx0 rgmx1 rgmx2 rgmx3.
lo0: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 16384
options=3
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
rgmx0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500
options=3
ether 00:0f:b7:10:1b:32
inet 10.0.0.31 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
media: Ethernet autoselect
rgmx1: flags=8802 metric 0 mtu 1500
options=3
ether 00:0f:b7:10:1b:33
media: Ethernet autoselect
rgmx2: flags=8802 metric 0 mtu 1500
options=3
ether 00:0f:b7:10:1b:34
media: Ethernet autoselect
rgmx3: flags=8802 metric 0 mtu 1500
options=3
ether 00:0f:b7:10:1b:35
media: Ethernet autoselect
Starting devd.
Creating and/or trimming log files.
Starting syslogd.
/etc/rc: WARNING: Dump device does not exist. Savecore not run.
ELF ldconfig path: /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat
Clearing /tmp (X related).
Updating motd:.
Starting cron.
Starting inetd.
Starting background file system checks in 60 seconds.

Tue Jan 26 02:07:16 UTC 2010

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