Switching to the Mirabox
The Dockstar is nice but still limited to one port and has limited performance. After all the overheating issues, GlobalScale finally abandonned the GuruPlug Server Plus and replaced it with the DreamPlug which was a much nicer and safer design. I had one in hands and was considering buying one. I'm among the people who complain a lot about poor quality and point the finger at companies who put awful products on the market and do nothing to fix them. But when these people go back to the blackboard to completely redesign the product, I applaud. So I was OK with ordering a new product from them again.When wandering on GlobalScale's web site last year, I noticed some teasing for the upcoming Smile Box, then the Mirabox. Both were using the same platform, a new Marvell Armada370 (ARMv7) at 1.2 GHz. The Mirabox has 1GB of RAM, 1GB of NAND flash, 2 GigE ports, a PCIe port, a MicroSD slot, an RTC with a battery, 2 USB3 ports, well it looked really nice. It was not much more expensive than the DreamPlug, so I finally decided to order one as well as a JTAG adapter in case things go wrong.
As soon as I received the box, I couldn't resist opening it. I was quite impressed by the quality of the hardware design. There is a very clean PCB with BGA chips on both sides, not a single wire at all, not even a heatsink. The device is very thin, basically the thickness of the RJ45 ports. There are jumpers inside, as well as serial and JTAG connectors that are compatible with the GuruPlug's adapter. Be careful when opening, the small plastic part which conducts the light from the leds sits in an unstable position and is annoying to reinstall. I finally glued it to the case.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
A debian is installed on the device. I quickly installed haproxy to see if the network performance was any better than with the Dockstar. I noticed that traffic would not flow at all ! After installing strace, I discovered that the splice() system call would systematically fail in an unexpected way, meaning that some nasty untested patches were applied to the 2.6.35.9 kernel. So I went to their site to download the sources an found none at all. The only thing I could find there were a binary kernel image and a broken boot loader image (Note that a few days ago, the boot loader image was fixed there, and the kernel and U-Boot sources were finally released on Plugcomputer.org).So I continued the tests by disabling splice() in haproxy and found that the performance was very low due to iptables and conntrack being hard-linked and impossible to disable.
So I looked on the net to find another kernel. I found one in Arch Linux ARM. Fine! Tried to boot it, it booted correctly and UBIFS complained about a lot of errors, then the kernel died consecutive to the inability to mount the root FS. After that the original kernel would also fail to mount the rootfs. Thanks to the captures I had taken earlier, I finally found that the config in the boot loader is wrong about the partitions sizes, which must have been hard-coded into their proprietary kernel that ignores the boot loader's settings. And it seems that UBIFS performs some recovery attempts before failing, resulting in a corrupted FS. Pfff.....
I could boot it with a Formilux rootfs and their proprietary kernel to recover the installation by reformating the partition and reflashing the original rootfs which is provided on their site. I got a bit angry at the product because it's full proprietary and bogus. I want to use it as a gigabit network sniffer and its network performance sucks because of the proprietary kernel!
First hope
Looking at kernel 3.7-rc sources, I found that the platform was recently introduced by the cool guys at Free Electrons, namely Thomas and Grégory, which are already known for porting Linux to a number of devices. So I contacted them to get some pointers and they told me about the Git repository where all their work is. I could test their latest work and could start hacking the device and providing them some feedback on some of their patches.Second crash
Unfortunately I managed to boot a kernel with the incorrect partition table a second time and it again destroyed my rootfs and marked a lot of blocks as bad... Except that this time even after several passes of flash_erase and nand_write, there were some remains of "UBI" on some blocks, and I couldn't get rid of the fake bad blocks. Probably that the NAND driver is still a bit young... I finally used the nand scrub option in the boot loader to completely erase the rootfs partition... Error! This one is bogus too, it randomly erases other areas, and marks block 0 as bad ! (the boot loader). So now I must not cut power! I only had one attempt left! I reformated the whole flash using nand scrub again and all went fine. I had to reflash the U-Boot boot loader, but the one on the site above was defective. I finally found one on another site. It looked right, contained references to the reference design board. I crossed fingers and flashed it, checked that it was correctly flashed, then rebooted... Aie, Bricked!BootROM 1.08 Booting from NAND flash BootROM: Bad header at offset 00000000 BootROM: Bad header at offset 00004000 BootROM: Bad header at offset 00008000 BootROM: Bad header at offset 0000C000 ...
Second disappointment
My only hope was flashing the NAND via JTAG. I took my GuruPlug JTAG adapter which directly connects to this board and to the GPIO board. But Armada370 is totally unknown from OpenOCD, and no patches are available. Then I was really angry at GlobalScale. They sold me a JTAG device to unbrick the mirabox and which I cannot use at all because the software to use it does not exist! I contacted the support, they offered me to reprogram it for $25, except that shipping costs are as high as the device's price. And they'd reinstall the same bogus kernel that I cannot use. So I declined and thought that I'd rather find some time to try to reverse-engineer the JTAG TAP and the flash controller on a spare week-end. (Note: I was recently told that GlobalScale is considering sponsoring a port to OpenOCD, which is nice then).New hope
One or two months after leaving the device unused on my desk, I decided to get it to work using OpenOCD. I downloaded all the doc, read it, started editing some board and target files, and could detect the TAP ID, which means the JTAG link is OK. I managed to reset the board via JTAG, which was good.While reading the OpenOCD doc, I noticed something changed in an xterm behind. It was my minicom connected to the Mirabox which stopped scrolling on the "BootROM Bad Header" messages, and which displayed "Trying to boot from UART" ! UART ? I searched the net and found references to kwboot which is a tool made for loading firmwares into Marvell SoC via the serial port. In fact, Thomas had suggested it to me a while ago but I forgot since I couldn't figure how I could use it. Anyway now I got hope again and left OpenOCD to completely focus on kwboot.
Booting an image using kwboot
So I downloaded kwboot. I initially didn't find it alone, it's integrated into U-Boot in this tree and depends on a number of includes from this tree. I was about to clone the whole repository when I found a precompiled binary version here.This utility sends a "magic" sequence to the BootROM boot loader installed in the Armada370's ROM (or maybe in the small I2C flash that's next to it, I don't know). The magic is a 8-byte sequence : 0xBB 0x11 0x22 0x33 0x44 0x55 0x66 0x77. The boot loader reads this image before the first attempt to boot, and each time it loops over the whole flash image (which is quite long on the 1 GB NAND). So it's better to start sending the sequence with the Mirabox powered down, and then to power it up. That's why it's very important that USB consoles are powered by the PC and not by the device!.
Fixing the boot loader image
The original U-Boot image could not be loaded via kwboot. The reason is that the first byte of the image indicates the boot device. Here I have 0x8B which indicates the image boots from the NAND. To boot on the serial port, we need 0x69. Changing it by hand will not work because there's a checksum. kwboot is able to patch this byte and recompute the checksum. But it looks like the cheksumming algorithm has changed on this new platform, because a fixed image does not boot either, and the original image does not show the correct checksum.I found another tool, kwuartboot. I tried it in case it would handle a different checksumming algorithm, but that did not work either, it failed very similarly. So I concluded that I had to find how to regenerate my boot loader image to boot from the serial port and write the correct checksum.
Find new doimage
I found various incompatible versions of the "doimage" utility used to produce the boot image. I finally found that a version packaged for ArmadaXP was compatible with my Mirabox. (Note that since the patched U-Boot sources have finally been released, there is no need anymore to use the ArmadaXP image). Here's how I managed to rebuild a working doimage utility :1. retrieve this U-Boot patch
2. rebuild the sources from the patch :
$ mkdir tmp-tools-doimage $ cd tmp-tools-doimage $ patch -Ntp1 < ../u-boot-2009.08-mv78460-20110404.patch >/dev/null 2>&1 $ cd tools $ tar cf - doimage_armada_xp | gzip -9 > ../../doimage_armada_xp.tar.gz $ cd ../.. $ rm -rf tmp-tools-doimage3. rebuilt the executable from the sources :
$ tar zxf doimage_armada_xp.tar.gz $ cd doimage_armada_xp $ make
Find the various parts in the original image
The sources helped me a lot understand the image format. There are two binary images included in the U-Boot image, one is the DDR3 initialization code, and another one is the boot loader itself. There are several headers in the image and checksums that are computed on the global image. So it is possible to extract the embedded images, if necessary to modify them, then to reassemble them together and put the 32-bit checksum on them. After probably more than one hundred of attempts, I found that I needed the following parts of my original mtd0 partition :| Type | Offset | Length | md5sum | Begins with |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDR3 | 0x24 | 48584 | f4b165ce... | 02 00 00 00 5B 00 00 00 |
| U-Boot | 0xC000 | 675420 | c739a005... | 12 00 00 EA 14 F0 9F E5 |
$ doimage -T uart -D 0x600000 -E 0x6A0000 -G mtd0-hdr.bin \ mtd0-uboot.bin u-boot.bin
Still fails to load at 48k and issue DDR3 on the console
I then tried to flash the image this way :$ kwboot -b u-boot.bin /dev/ttyUSB0Unfortunately, the mirabox would still reject this image, but in a new and more consistent way : it systematically rejects the image after 48kB of data, and the green LED "D5" turns on just at the moment of the hang. I switched to kwuartboot to see if I got the same error, and it behaved exactly the same way. So I modified it to display the invalid characters it got that confused it, and I saw "DDR3 Training Sequence". Wow! This means that the DDR3 code was executed, because this line is normally displayed at boot when the Mirabox boots. So I suspected that the DDR3 initialization code is loaded into the cache or some SRAM on the device, which must then initialize DDR3 to load the rest. So if this code is executed early during the boot sequence and displays things on the console port I'm using to upload an image, it is conceivable that it breaks the upload sequence...
Patch the DDR3 thing to talk to ttyS1 instead
So I wondered how to shut that DDR3 code down. Since the device has two serial ports, I thought that it could be easier to make it chat on ttyS1 instead. ttyS0 is located at 0x10000 and ttyS1 is at 0x12000. I looked for occurrences of 0x10000 in the image and patched them to use 0x12000 instead. I was a bit scared because on ARM you don't have many bits for immediate values, and I was afraid not to be able to add a 2 there if some higher bit was set. This was not the case, the values were used absolute. I found 4 locations which needed to be patched in mtd0-hdr.bin : 0x1BC0, 0x1C08, 0x1D0C, 0x1D30. I then rebuilt the whole image using doimage :$ doimage -T uart -D 0x600000 -E 0x6A0000 -G mtd0-hdr-uart1.bin \ mtd0-uboot.bin u-boot-uart1.bin
New attempt to boot
Last step was to try to boot the image again :$ ./kwboot -b u-boot-uart1.bin -t /dev/ttyUSB0 Sending boot message. Please reboot the target...\ Sending boot image... 0 % [......................................................................] 1 % [......................................................................] 2 % [......................................................................] ...Well, it goes further than 48kB this time, let's cross fingers... After about 45s, I got this :
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** LOADER **
U-Boot 2009.08 (Sep 16 2012 - 22:50:06)Marvell version: 1.1.2 NQ
U-Boot Addressing:
Code: 00600000:006AFFF0
BSS: 006F8E40
Stack: 0x5fff70
PageTable: 0x8e0000
Heap address: 0x900000:0xe00000
Board: DB-88F6710-BP
SoC: MV6710 A1
CPU: Marvell PJ4B v7 UP (Rev 1) LE
CPU @ 1200Mhz, L2 @ 600Mhz
DDR @ 600Mhz, TClock @ 200Mhz
DDR 16Bit Width, FastPath Memory Access
PEX 0: Detected No Link.
PEX 1: Root Complex Interface, Detected Link X1
DRAM: 1 GB
CS 0: base 0x00000000 size 512 MB
CS 1: base 0x20000000 size 512 MB
Addresses 14M - 0M are saved for the U-Boot usage.
NAND: 1024 MiB
Bad block table found at page 262016, version 0x01
Bad block table found at page 261888, version 0x01
FPU not initialized
USB 0: Host Mode
USB 1: Host Mode
Modules/Interfaces Detected:
RGMII0 Phy
RGMII1 Phy
PEX0 (Lane 0)
PEX1 (Lane 1)
phy16= 72
phy16= 72
MMC: MRVL_MMC: 0
Net: egiga0 [PRIME], egiga1
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
Marvell>>
Yesss! For those who want to experiment with this without bricking their devices, I'm putting here this working image with a modified prompt to display "Recover>>" instead of "Marvell>>" so that it's always easy to tell what boot loader you're running from. Now reflash the recovered device
Now that I'm on the device again for the first time in a few months, I don't want to see it go away. It's urgent to erase and reflash it. WARNING! do not copy-paste what follows if you don't understand what it is about, it will wipe out your whole device and may render it unusable! First, erase the whole flash :Marvell>> nand erase clean Marvell>>
Let's check that the flash correctly shows 0xff everywhere :
Marvell>> nand dump 0
Page 00000000 dump:
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
...
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
OOB:
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
...
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
Marvell>>
OK. We'll pre-fill the memory with 0xFF before loading the boot loader there, to avoid flashing crap : Marvell>> mw.l 0x7000000 0xffffffff 0x00100000 Marvell>> md.b 0x7000000 100 07000000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ............... ... 070000f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ............... Marvell>>Now copy the original mtd0 image from a TFTP server (from a file called "mtd0" there) to that location :
Marvell>> tftpboot 0x7000000 mtd0 Marvell>> md.b 0x7000000 100 07000000: 8b 00 00 00 60 4e 0a 00 01 00 00 c0 00 c0 00 00 ....`N.......... 07000010: 00 00 60 00 00 00 6a 00 00 02 01 00 00 00 01 0a ..`...j......... ... 070000f0: aa 25 ad 00 ed 19 2b 60 00 23 ab 20 80 00 c0 19 .%....+`.#. .... Marvell>>The contents look fine (note the 8b at the beginning which means that this is a NAND flash image). If everything looks OK and only in this case, you can write the memory contents down to the flash then control that it looks similar to the dump above :
Marvell>> nand write 0x7000000 0 0x00400000 Marvell>> nand dump 0Then reset the device, it should reboot directly from the flash. If it fails, you just have to retry the procedure above and figure what you got wrong.
Marvell>> reset
Back to hacking the device again
Since the device is fixed and I don't fear losing it anymore, I'm back playing with it. I'm running it with a 3.8 kernel with all development patches from Free-Electrons, as well as a recent attempt I made to port Marvell's NAND Flash Controller driver to this kernel. Right now it works but the code is ugly, contains many copy-pastes and I don't trust it a lot. I found it safer to buy a microSD card and install my FS there.I could also remove some of Marvell's patches from their ugly kernel (I could get splice() to work again) and rebase it on 2.6.35.14, but at this point in time, I think it does not make sense to spend more time with this dead kernel, better try to get most features working with 3.8 and 3.9-rc. Oh, and BTW, UBIFS managed to destroy my rootfs again using Marvell's kernel when it tried to mount an uncleanly shutdown rootfs! I don't know if it's the FS or the Flash controller which is to blame, but what's certain is that a filesystem driver should not destroy the data it's responsible for, and that it should at least offer tools to fix devices which report errors. Here, after any minimal error, the file system is definitely lost. So that's one more reason for switching to a replaceable microSD for the root FS.
There are still a number of issues that I would like to see fixed in future versions :
- the mtdparts variable in the boot loader does not match the real partition size, which apparently is responsible for UBIFS corrupting my root FS.
- the Ethernet MAC addresses at the bottom of the box are different from those on the sticker on the board ! I don't know which ones are the right one, so if I plug this device on a network with another one sharing the same addresses, it could cause trouble.
- their bogus kernel needs some fixing. I don't understand why they patched (and broke) the splice() system call. Also, having iptables+conntrack hard-linked really is problematic (and there is no NOTRACK target).
- the boot loader only reserves 4 MB for the kernel, which is too small for development kernels. Anyway you'll probably have to repartition the flash after the rootfs gets corrupted.
- the internal jumpers and connectors are not documented.
- I tried a dual-gigE mini-PCIe boards (i350-based Jetway ADMPEIDLA) and it did not work, it was not even detected. I don't know which one is the culprit since the NIC works on an Atom board and other cards work on this board.
A few captures
Here come a few captures of what people always want to see from a new board :-)cpuinfo
# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 1196.85 Features : swp half fastmult vfp edsp vfpv3 vfpv3d16 tls CPU implementer : 0x56 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x1 CPU part : 0x581 CPU revision : 1 Hardware : Marvell Armada 370/XP (Device Tree) Revision : 0000 Serial : 0000000000000000
meminfo
# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 1034348 kB MemFree: 998484 kB Buffers: 4476 kB Cached: 9820 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 7116 kB Inactive: 8576 kB Active(anon): 1768 kB Inactive(anon): 76 kB Active(file): 5348 kB Inactive(file): 8500 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB HighTotal: 270336 kB HighFree: 248016 kB LowTotal: 764012 kB LowFree: 750468 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Dirty: 0 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 1424 kB Mapped: 2484 kB Shmem: 448 kB Slab: 4388 kB SReclaimable: 952 kB SUnreclaim: 3436 kB KernelStack: 280 kB PageTables: 152 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 703356 kB Committed_AS: 5236 kB VmallocTotal: 245760 kB VmallocUsed: 6120 kB VmallocChunk: 237500 kB
lspci
# lspci -nnv
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device [11ab:7846] (pro
g-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, user-definable features, ?? devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: [fc] <chain broken>
00:02.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device [11ab:7846] (pro
g-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, user-definable features, ?? devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: c1000000-c10fffff
Capabilities: [fc] <chain broken>
02:00.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Device [1b73:1009] (rev 02) (prog-if 30)
Subsystem: Device [1b73:0000]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 105
Memory at c1000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Memory at c1010000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at c1011000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable- Count=8 Masked-
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
iomem
# cat /proc/iomem 00000000-3fffffff : System RAM 00008000-0044b073 : Kernel code 00738000-007f6393 : Kernel data c1000000-c100ffff : xhci_hcd d0010300-d001031f : d0010300.rtc d0012000-d001201f : serial d0018100-d001813f : /soc/gpio@d0018100 d0018140-d001817f : /soc/gpio@d0018140 d0018180-d00181bf : /soc/gpio@d0018180 d0050000-d00504ff : ehci_hcd d0051000-d00514ff : ehci_hcd
interrupts
# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
16: 29435 armada_370_xp_irq armada_370_xp_per_cpu_tick
17: 2592 armada_370_xp_irq serial
23: 684 armada_370_xp_irq mvneta
26: 1 armada_370_xp_irq d0010300.rtc
27: 231 armada_370_xp_irq ehci_hcd:usb1
28: 0 armada_370_xp_irq ehci_hcd:usb2
105: 0 armada_370_xp_irq xhci_hcd:usb3
106: 2 armada_370_xp_irq d0060800.xor
107: 2 armada_370_xp_irq d0060800.xor
108: 2 armada_370_xp_irq d0060900.xor
109: 2 armada_370_xp_irq d0060900.xor
Err: 0
dmesg
Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
Linux version 3.8.0-mbx (willy@pcw) (gcc version 4.5.2 (Sourcery G++ Lite 2011.0
3-41) ) #2 Sun Feb 24 11:58:31 CET 2013
CPU: ARMv7 Processor [561f5811] revision 1 (ARMv7), cr=10c53c7d
CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, PIPT instruction cache
Machine: Marvell Armada 370/XP (Device Tree), model: Globalscale Mirabox
Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
On node 0 totalpages: 262144
free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c075ba60, node_mem_map c0b90000
Normal zone: 1520 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
Normal zone: 193040 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 528 pages used for memmap
HighMem zone: 67056 pages, LIFO batch:15
pcpu-alloc: s0 r0 d32768 u32768 alloc=1*32768
pcpu-alloc: [0] 0
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 260096
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 mtdparts=armada-nand:4m(uboot),4m(uima
ge),8m(nv),16m(rescue),480m(rootfs),-(pad) ubi.mtd=4 root=/dev/ram0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
__ex_table already sorted, skipping sort
Memory: 1024MB = 1024MB total
Memory: 1020756k/1020756k available, 27820k reserved, 270336K highmem
Virtual kernel memory layout:
vector : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000 ( 4 kB)
fixmap : 0xfff00000 - 0xfffe0000 ( 896 kB)
vmalloc : 0xf0000000 - 0xff000000 ( 240 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xef800000 ( 760 MB)
pkmap : 0xbfe00000 - 0xc0000000 ( 2 MB)
modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xbfe00000 ( 14 MB)
.text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc044b074 (4365 kB)
.init : 0xc044c000 - 0xc0736934 (2987 kB)
.data : 0xc0738000 - 0xc075c480 ( 146 kB)
.bss : 0xc075c480 - 0xc07f6394 ( 616 kB)
NR_IRQS:16 nr_irqs:16 16
Aurora cache controller enabled
l2x0: 4 ways, CACHE_ID 0x00000100, AUX_CTRL 0x1a086302, Cache size: 262144 B
sched_clock: 32 bits at 18MHz, resolution 53ns, wraps every 229064ms
Calibrating delay loop... 1196.85 BogoMIPS (lpj=5984256)
pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
Setting up static identity map for 0x354c20 - 0x354c78
devtmpfs: initialized
pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
NET: Registered protocol family 16
DMA: preallocated 1024 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
irq: Cannot allocate irq_descs @ IRQ33, assuming pre-allocated
irq: Cannot allocate irq_descs @ IRQ69, assuming pre-allocated
irq: Cannot allocate irq_descs @ IRQ102, assuming pre-allocated
Initializing Coherency fabric
bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
mvebu-pcie pcie-controller.1: PCIe0.0: link down
mvebu-pcie pcie-controller.1: PCIe1.0: link up
mvebu-pcie pcie-controller.1: PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io 0x0000-0xffff]
pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0xc1000000-0xc8ffffff]
pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [bus 00-ff]
pci_bus 0000:00: scanning bus
pci 0000:00:01.0: [11ab:7846] type 01 class 0x060400
pci 0000:00:01.0: calling pci_fixup_ide_bases+0x0/0x11c
pci 0000:00:02.0: [11ab:7846] type 01 class 0x060400
pci 0000:00:02.0: calling pci_fixup_ide_bases+0x0/0x11c
pci_bus 0000:00: fixups for bus
PCI: bus0: Fast back to back transfers disabled
pci 0000:00:01.0: scanning [bus 00-00] behind bridge, pass 0
pci 0000:00:01.0: bridge configuration invalid ([bus 00-00]), reconfiguring
pci 0000:00:02.0: scanning [bus 00-00] behind bridge, pass 0
pci 0000:00:02.0: bridge configuration invalid ([bus 00-00]), reconfiguring
pci 0000:00:01.0: scanning [bus 00-00] behind bridge, pass 1
pci_bus 0000:01: scanning bus
pci_bus 0000:01: fixups for bus
PCI: bus1: Fast back to back transfers enabled
pci_bus 0000:01: bus scan returning with max=01
pci_bus 0000:01: busn_res: [bus 01-ff] end is updated to 01
pci 0000:00:02.0: scanning [bus 00-00] behind bridge, pass 1
pci_bus 0000:02: scanning bus
pci 0000:02:00.0: [1b73:1009] type 00 class 0x0c0330
pci 0000:02:00.0: reg 10: [mem 0x42000000-0x4200ffff 64bit]
pci 0000:02:00.0: reg 18: [mem 0x42010000-0x42010fff 64bit]
pci 0000:02:00.0: reg 20: [mem 0x42011000-0x42011fff 64bit]
pci 0000:02:00.0: calling pci_fixup_ide_bases+0x0/0x11c
pci 0000:02:00.0: supports D1
pci 0000:02:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D3hot
pci 0000:02:00.0: PME# disabled
pci_bus 0000:02: fixups for bus
PCI: bus2: Fast back to back transfers disabled
pci_bus 0000:02: bus scan returning with max=02
pci_bus 0000:02: busn_res: [bus 02-ff] end is updated to 02
pci_bus 0000:00: bus scan returning with max=02
pci 0000:00:01.0: fixup irq: got 135
pci 0000:00:01.0: assigning IRQ 135
pci 0000:00:02.0: fixup irq: got 135
pci 0000:00:02.0: assigning IRQ 135
pci 0000:02:00.0: fixup irq: got 105
pci 0000:02:00.0: assigning IRQ 105
pci 0000:00:02.0: BAR 8: assigned [mem 0xc1000000-0xc10fffff]
pci 0000:00:01.0: PCI bridge to [bus 01]
pci 0000:02:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0xc1000000-0xc100ffff 64bit]
pci 0000:02:00.0: BAR 0: set to [mem 0xc1000000-0xc100ffff 64bit] (PCI address [
0xc1000000-0xc100ffff])
pci 0000:02:00.0: BAR 2: assigned [mem 0xc1010000-0xc1010fff 64bit]
pci 0000:02:00.0: BAR 2: set to [mem 0xc1010000-0xc1010fff 64bit] (PCI address [
0xc1010000-0xc1010fff])
pci 0000:02:00.0: BAR 4: assigned [mem 0xc1011000-0xc1011fff 64bit]
pci 0000:02:00.0: BAR 4: set to [mem 0xc1011000-0xc1011fff 64bit] (PCI address [
0xc1011000-0xc1011fff])
pci 0000:00:02.0: PCI bridge to [bus 02]
pci 0000:00:02.0: bridge window [mem 0xc1000000-0xc10fffff]
PCI: enabling device 0000:00:01.0 (0140 -> 0143)
pci 0000:00:01.0: enabling bus mastering
PCI: enabling device 0000:00:02.0 (0140 -> 0143)
pci 0000:00:02.0: enabling bus mastering
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
Switching to clocksource armada_370_xp_clocksource
NET: Registered protocol family 2
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
TCP: reno registered
UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
UDP-Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
pci 0000:02:00.0: calling quirk_usb_early_handoff+0x0/0x8c4
PCI: CLS 64 bytes, default 64
Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
rootfs image is not initramfs (junk in compressed archive); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 10608K
bounce pool size: 64 pages
squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
msgmni has been set to 1486
Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
armada-370-pinctrl d0018000.pinctrl: registered pinctrl driver
mv_xor d0060800.xor: Marvell XOR driver
mv_xor d0060800.xor: Marvell XOR: ( xor cpy )
mv_xor d0060800.xor: Marvell XOR: ( xor fill cpy )
mv_xor d0060900.xor: Marvell XOR driver
mv_xor d0060900.xor: Marvell XOR: ( xor cpy )
mv_xor d0060900.xor: Marvell XOR: ( xor fill cpy )
Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
d0012000.serial: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xd0012000 (irq = 17) is a 8250
console [ttyS0] enabled
brd: module loaded
loop: module loaded
libphy: orion_mdio_bus: probed
mvneta d0070000.ethernet eth0: mac: f0:ad:4e:01:a5:f3
mvneta d0074000.ethernet eth1: mac: f0:ad:4e:01:a5:f4
ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
orion-ehci d0050000.usb: Marvell Orion EHCI
orion-ehci d0050000.usb: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
orion-ehci d0050000.usb: irq 27, io mem 0xd0050000
orion-ehci d0050000.usb: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
usb usb1: Product: Marvell Orion EHCI
usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 3.8.0-mbx ehci_hcd
usb usb1: SerialNumber: d0050000.usb
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
orion-ehci d0051000.usb: Marvell Orion EHCI
orion-ehci d0051000.usb: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
orion-ehci d0051000.usb: irq 28, io mem 0xd0051000
orion-ehci d0051000.usb: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
usb usb2: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
usb usb2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
usb usb2: Product: Marvell Orion EHCI
usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 3.8.0-mbx ehci_hcd
usb usb2: SerialNumber: d0051000.usb
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 1 port detected
ehci-pci: EHCI PCI platform driver
xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: enabling bus mastering
xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI Host Controller
xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: enabling Mem-Wr-Inval
xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: irq 105, io mem 0xc1000000
usb usb3: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
usb usb3: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
usb usb3: Product: xHCI Host Controller
usb usb3: Manufacturer: Linux 3.8.0-mbx xhci_hcd
usb usb3: SerialNumber: 0000:02:00.0
xHCI xhci_add_endpoint called for root hub
xHCI xhci_check_bandwidth called for root hub
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHCI Host Controller
xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
usb usb4: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0003
usb usb4: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
usb usb4: Product: xHCI Host Controller
usb usb4: Manufacturer: Linux 3.8.0-mbx xhci_hcd
usb usb4: SerialNumber: 0000:02:00.0
xHCI xhci_add_endpoint called for root hub
xHCI xhci_check_bandwidth called for root hub
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
rtc-mv d0010300.rtc: rtc core: registered d0010300.rtc as rtc0
i2c /dev entries driver
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
usbhid: USB HID core driver
IPv4 over IPv4 tunneling driver
TCP: bic registered
TCP: cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
VFP support v0.3: implementor 56 architecture 2 part 20 variant 9 rev 6
UBI error: ubi_init: UBI error: cannot initialize UBI, error -19
rtc-mv d0010300.rtc: setting system clock to 2013-02-24 14:03:59 UTC (1361714639
)
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Freeing init memory: 2984K
usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using orion-ehci
usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1a40, idProduct=0101
usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
usb 1-1: Product: USB 2.0 Hub
hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using orion-ehci
usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0723
usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=4, SerialNumber=0
usb 1-1.1: Product: USB Storage
usb 1-1.1: Manufacturer: Generic
usb-storage 1-1.1:1.0: Quirks match for vid 05e3 pid 0723: 8000
scsi0 : usb-storage 1-1.1:1.0
usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 4 using orion-ehci
usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0723
usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=4, SerialNumber=0
usb 1-1.2: Product: USB Storage
usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Generic
usb-storage 1-1.2:1.0: Quirks match for vid 05e3 pid 0723: 8000
scsi1 : usb-storage 1-1.2:1.0
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 9451 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 9451 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 15523840 512-byte logical blocks: (7.94 GB/7.40 GiB)
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 < sdb5 > sdb4
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
mvneta d0070000.ethernet eth0: link up
Jumpers
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The only combinations I found to work so far are the following ones. Overall we could say that J6/J5/J2 affect the CPU/L2/DDR frequencies, and athat J7/J4/J9 prevent the system from booting if changed.
CPU@1200 MHz, L2@600, DDR@600 (Default settings)
| J7 | J4 | J6 | J5 | J9 | J8 | J1 | J2 | J3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
CPU: Marvell PJ4B v7 UP (Rev 1) LE
CPU @ 1200Mhz, L2 @ 600Mhz
DDR @ 600Mhz, TClock @ 200Mhz
DDR 16Bit Width, FastPath Memory Access
CPU@1200, L2@800, DDR@400
| J7 | J4 | J6 | J5 | J9 | J8 | J1 | J2 | J3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
CPU: Marvell PJ4B v7 UP (Rev 1) LE
CPU @ 1200Mhz, L2 @ 800Mhz
DDR @ 400Mhz, TClock @ 200Mhz
DDR 16Bit Width, FastPath Memory Access
CPU@1000, L2@500, DDR@500
| J7 | J4 | J6 | J5 | J9 | J8 | J1 | J2 | J3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
CPU: Marvell PJ4B v7 UP (Rev 1) LE
CPU @ 1000Mhz, L2 @ 500Mhz
DDR @ 500Mhz, TClock @ 200Mhz
DDR 16Bit Width, FastPath Memory Access
CPU@1067, L2@534, DDR@534
| J7 | J4 | J6 | J5 | J9 | J8 | J1 | J2 | J3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
CPU: Marvell PJ4B v7 UP (Rev 1) LE
CPU @ 1067Mhz, L2 @ 534Mhz
DDR @ 534Mhz, TClock @ 200Mhz
DDR 16Bit Width, FastPath Memory Access
CPU@1333, L2@667, DDR@667
Note: this configuration did not boot.| J7 | J4 | J6 | J5 | J9 | J8 | J1 | J2 | J3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
CPU: Marvell PJ4B v7 UP (Rev 1) LE
CPU @ 1333Mhz, L2 @ 667Mhz
DDR @ 667Mhz, TClock @ 200Mhz
DDR 16Bit Width, FastPath Memory Access
Useful links
- Prebuilt images for Mirabox
- Sources for Mirabox
- Free Electrons : the guys who port the device to new kernels.
- Free Electrons development kernel tree.
- U-Boot patched with kwboot.
- precompiled kwboot for x86.
- My bootable serial image to load using kwboot.
- http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-4-guruplugs.aspx : the manufacturer's page for this neat device.
- http://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/armada-300/ : the Marvell Armada300 product line.
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