Re: current issues on Octeon (ER-4)

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

On Sun, 21 May 2023 at 12:23:19 +0100, Denis Ovsienko wrote:
> Before I forget, there is one other rough edge with evbmips-mips64eb:
> * When booting octeon.img.gz, DHCP client works.
> * When booting netbsd-OCTEON after the manual installation, DHCP client
>  works.
> * When booting netbsd-INSTALL_OCTEON, DHCP client does not work because
>  the kernel does not seem to have BPF (this has been this way at least
>  since 2021), also there is an assertion at the end.  Using static
>  IPv4 configuration in the installer works around the problem.
>
>     Status: Command failed
>    Command: /sbin/dhcpcd -d -n cnmac1
>     Hit enter to continue
> qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq
> Berkley Packet Filter not found
> cnmac1: sending DISCOVER (xid 0xeb30a157), next in 8.4 seconds
> cnmac1: sending DISCOVER (xid 0xeb30a157), next in 8.4 seconds
> Berkley Packet Filter not found
> Berkley Packet Filter not found
> cnmac1: sending DISCOVER (xid 0xeb30a157), next in 15.6 seconds
> cnmac1: sending DISCOVER (xid 0xeb30a157), next in 15.6 seconds
> Berkley Packet Filter not found
> Berkley Packet Filter not found
> timed out
> timed out
> cnmac1: executing: /libexec/dhcpcd-run-hooks STOPPED
> cnmac1: executing: /libexec/dhcpcd-run-hooks STOPPED
> dhcpcd_fork_cb: truncated read 0 (expected 4)
> dhcpcd_fork_cb: truncated read 0 (expected 4)
> assertion "ifp != NULL" failed: file 
> "/usr/src/lib/libc/net/getifaddrs.c", line
> 303, function "_freeifaddrs"

Examining the ramdisk build recipe, I saw that bpf wasn't on the list
of device nodes to be created (though dhcpcd is included, and bpf is
enabled in the kernel configuration), so I've now added it.

I'm not able to test this directly, but verified by mounting the ramdisk
images generated before and after this change. Testing would be
appreciated.

Regards,

Dave