Re: Attempting to run NetBSD on Quartz64 B

[Michael Lyle <mlyle%lyle.org@localhost>]

Hi Martin,

I do have a serial console and can see the EFI console.  (I know the
uEFI in question is not from NetBSD).  It's interesting to hear you
say that Q64 ModA can boot from NVMe.

I don't know about a debug build of the uEFI; I don't see a provision
for that in the uEFI distribution.

When I run 'devices' at the uEFI shell, I don't see any hint of the
NVMe.  I see these lines:

   88 D - -  1  1   0
MemoryMapped(0xB,0xFE2B0000,0xFE2B0FFF)/HD(1,GPT,996284FE-9
B71-49F9-864F-5E971B73E880,0x40,0x3FC0)
  89 D - -  1  1   0 MemoryMapped(0xB,0xFE2B0000,0xFE2B0FFF)/HD(2,GPT,A654DBB6-9
2EA-4FFB-87C3-30A9D9BABC44,0x4000,0x4000)
  8A D - -  1  1   0 MemoryMapped(0xB,0xFE2B0000,0xFE2B0FFF)/HD(3,GPT,9AC222C5-8
EC1-4EC1-A68F-EEC251DA50A9,0x8000,0x8000)

But those seem to be SD.

When I run 'pci', it says pci: Protocol - PciRootBridgeIo not found.
-- so I wonder if I am even running the correct uEFI for NetBSD/NVMe.
I haven't really found docs about how to do this.  I've tried 3
distinct NVMe cards from different manufacturers.

Thanks for your help,

Mike


On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 2:28 AM Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 08:24:56PM -0700, Michael Lyle wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I last ran NetBSD 20 years ago and I'd like to come back, running on
> > something non-x86 but modernish (multicore, NVMe, gigabytes of RAM).
> > I believed based on the little documentation that's around that I
> > could run NetBSD from NVMe on Quartz64, so I obtained one of these.
> >
> > I'm trying to use Jared McNeill's uEFI (on SD), but it doesn't seem to
> > see the NVMe device that I blitted arm64.img onto.
>
> It works fine for me on a Quartz64 Model A (only thing I can't get to work
> is the SATA port).
>
> Do you have serial console and could you try a debug version of the firmware?
>
> Martin