Octeon installer fails to boot with 202201251800Z

[Denis Ovsienko <denis%ovsienko.info@localhost>]

Hello list.

NetBSD snapshot 202110010800Z has been running on my E300
(EdgeRouter-4) for a while.  I decided to try the most recent snapshot,
as it turns out, 202201251800Z is broken, in that netbsd-INSTALL_OCTEON
prints only the following lines and then hangs:

[   1.0000000] MIPS32/64 params: cpu arch: 256
[   1.0000000] MIPS32/64 params: TLB entries: 256
[   1.0000000] MIPS32/64 params: Icache: line=128, total=79872, ways=39, sets=16, colors=0
[   1.0000000] MIPS32/64 params: Dcache: line=128, total=32768, ways=32, sets=8, colors=0
[   1.0000000] MIPS32/64 params: SDcache: line=128, total=1048576, ways=8, sets=1024, colors=16
[   1.0000000]   Dcache is coherent

netbsd-INSTALL_OCTEON from 202110010800Z after that prints:

[   1.0000000] u-boot bootmem desc @ 0x6c108 version 3.0
[   1.0000000] phys segment: 0x100000 @ 0x100000
[   1.0000000] adding 0x100000 @ 0x100000 to freelist 0
[   1.0000000] phys segment: 0xefa4000 @ 0xe0c000
[   1.0000000] adding 0xefa4000 @ 0xe0c000 to freelist 0
[   1.0000000] phys segment: 0xe000 @ 0xfdb4000
[   1.0000000] adding 0xe000 @ 0xfdb4000 to freelist 0
[   1.0000000] phys segment: 0x2f0 @ 0xffb6000 (short)
[   1.0000000] phys segment: 0x80 @ 0xffd6000 (short)
[   1.0000000] phys segment: 0x60 @ 0xfff6000 (short)
[   1.0000000] phys segment: 0x2effe000 @ 0x20000000
[   1.0000000] adding 0x2effe000 @ 0x20000000 to freelist 0
[   1.0000000] phys segment: 0x1080 @ 0x4f000000 (short)
[   1.0000000] Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
[   1.0000000]     2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,
[   1.0000000]     2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
[   1.0000000] Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
[   1.0000000]     The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

[   1.0000000] NetBSD 9.99.90 (INSTALL_OCTEON) #0: Fri Oct  1 07:14:37 UTC 2021
[   1.0000000] 	mkrepro%mkrepro.NetBSD.org@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/evbmips/compile/INSTALL_OCTEON
[   1.0000000] Cavium Octeon CN7130-1000
[   1.0000000] total memory = 1024 MB
[   1.0000000] avail memory = 976 MB
[   1.0000000] mainbus0 (root)
[   1.0000000] cpunode0 at mainbus0: 4 cores, crypto+kasumi, 64bit-mul, unaligned-access ok
[   1.0000000] cpu0 at cpunode0 core 0: 1000.00MHz
[   1.0000000] cpu0: Cavium CN7130-1000 (0xd9602) Rev. 2 with built-in FPU
[   1.0000000] cpu0: 256 TLB entries, 512TB (49-bit) VAs, 512TB (49-bit) PAs, 256MB max page size
[   1.0000000] cpu0: 78KB/128B 39-way set-associative L1 instruction cache
[   1.0000000] cpu0: 32KB/128B 32-way set-associative write-through coherent L1 data cache
[   1.0000000] cpu0: 1024KB/128B 8-way set-associative write-back L2 unified cache
[   1.0000000] cpu1 at cpunode0 core 1: disabled (uniprocessor kernel)
[   1.0000000] cpu2 at cpunode0 core 2: disabled (uniprocessor kernel)
[   1.0000000] cpu3 at cpunode0 core 3: disabled (uniprocessor kernel)

(and so on)

It would be nice to have NetBSD working on this hardware again.  If it
helps, I can provide remote hands to debug this.  Specifically, files
can be written to the USB storage and remote serial console can be
provided.  I am going to be on this mailing list for the next couple
weeks.

-- 
    Denis Ovsienko