What OS Will Work?

[bgv2022]

Wanted to find out about a list of software that should work out of the box.

OpenWRT?
PFSense?
Untangle?

Already know Ubuntu/Linux bases OS should work fine.

How to go about installing a different OS without a display?

[tompusateri]

You will probably have to wait until those operating systems announce support for the board. It will take some time.

[tompusateri]

A snapshot for OpenWRT is available here:

https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=SNAPSHOT&target=mvebu%2Fcortexa72&id=globalscale_mochabin

I’m going to try it and will follow up to see if it will boot off a USB stick.

[bgv2022]

Thanks. I’ve been swamped and haven’t been able to test much.

Is the bios default to boot off sata or usb?

[tompusateri]

It defaults to boot off internal 16GB MMC memory which is pre-installed with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I have been trying to boot FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD on a USB Stick with EFI but it crashes every time. I have seen some reports that this older version of U-boot that is installed had trouble with EFI booting. There is a usbboot command that does not expect EFI and a bootefi command.

[bgv2022]

There a way to get into the bios?

the WIKI page is very vague and lacks a lot of details.

[tompusateri]

Yes, connect a micro-USB to USB-A cable to the console port next to the power connector.

BootROM – 2.03
Starting CP-0 IOROM 1.07
Booting from SPI NOR flash 1 (0x32)
Found valid image at boot postion 0x000
lmv_ddr: mv_ddr-devel-18.12.0-g2e20f5d (Dec 30 2021 – 16:08:48)
mv_ddr: scrubbing memory…
mv_ddr: completed successfully
BL2: Initiating SCP_BL2 transfer to SCP

U-Boot 2018.03-devel-18.12.3-ga49bd540df (Dec 30 2021 – 16:06:18 +0800)

Model: Marvell Armada 7040 Mochabin development board
SoC: Armada7040-B0; AP806-B0; CP115-A0
Clock: CPU 1400 [MHz]
DDR 800 [MHz]
FABRIC 800 [MHz]
MSS 200 [MHz]
LLC Enabled (Exclusive Mode)
DRAM: 8 GiB
Bus spi@700680 CS0 configured for direct access 00000000f9000000:0x1000000
SF: Detected w25q32bv with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 4 MiB
EEPROM configuration pattern not detected.
Comphy chip #0:
Comphy-0: SGMII1 3.125 Gbps
Comphy-1: USB3_HOST0
Comphy-2: SATA0
Comphy-3: SATA1
Comphy-4: SFI0 10.3125 Gbps
Comphy-5: PEX2
UTMI PHY 0 initialized to USB Host0
UTMI PHY 1 initialized to USB Host1
SATA link 0 timeout.
SATA link 1 timeout.
AHCI 0001.0000 32 slots 2 ports 6 Gbps 0x3 impl SATA mode
flags: 64bit ncq led only pmp fbss pio slum part sxs
PCIE-0: Link up (Gen1-x1, Bus0)
MMC: sdhci@6e0000: 0
Loading Environment from SPI Flash… OK
Model: Marvell Armada 7040 Mochabin development board
Net: eth0: mvpp2-0 [PRIME], eth1: mvpp2-1, eth2: mvpp2-2
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
Marvell>>
Marvell>> printenv
arch=arm
baudrate=115200
board=mvebu_armada-8k
board_name=mvebu_armada-8k
bootcmd=ev 0; ext4load mmc 0:1 $kernel_addr_r $image_name; ext4load mmc 0:1 $fdt_addr_r $fdt_name; setenv bootargs $console root=PARTUUID=89708921-01 rw rootwait net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0; booti $kernel_addr_r – $fdt_addr_r
bootdelay=2
console=console=ttyS0,115200 earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0xf0512000
cpu=armv8
eth1addr=00:51:82:11:22:01
eth2addr=00:51:82:11:22:02
ethact=mvpp2-0
ethaddr=00:51:82:11:22:00
ethprime=eth0
extra_params=pci=pcie_bus_safe
fdt_addr_r=0x6f00000
fdt_high=0xffffffffffffffff
fdt_name=boot/armada-7040-mochabin.dtb
fdtcontroladdr=7f625230
gatewayip=10.4.50.254
get_images=tftpboot $kernel_addr_r $image_name; tftpboot $fdt_addr_r $fdt_name; run get_ramfs
get_ramfs=if test “${ramfs_name}” != “-“; then setenv ramdisk_addr_r 0x8000000; tftpboot $ramdisk_addr_r $ramfs_name; else setenv ramdisk_addr_r -;fi
hostname=marvell
image_name=boot/Image
initrd_addr=0xa00000
initrd_size=0x2000000
ipaddr=0.0.0.0
kernel_addr_r=0x7000000
loadaddr=0x6000000
netdev=eth0
netmask=255.255.255.0
ramdisk_addr_r=0x8000000
ramfs_name=-
root=root=/dev/nfs rw
rootpath=/srv/nfs/
serverip=0.0.0.0
set_bootargs=setenv bootargs $console $root ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname:$netdev:none nfsroot=$serverip:$rootpath,tcp,v3 $extra_params $cpuidle
soc=mvebu
stderr=serial@512000
stdin=serial@512000
stdout=serial@512000
vendor=Marvell

Environment size: 1511/65532 bytes

Marvell>> ?
? – alias for ‘help’
avs – Set/Get Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) value

base – print or set address offset
bdinfo – print Board Info structure
blkcache- block cache diagnostics and control
boot – boot default, i.e., run ‘bootcmd’
bootd – boot default, i.e., run ‘bootcmd’
bootefi – Boots an EFI payload from memory
bootelf – Boot from an ELF image in memory
booti – boot arm64 Linux Image image from memory
bootm – boot application image from memory
bootp – boot image via network using BOOTP/TFTP protocol
bootvx – Boot vxWorks from an ELF image
bubt – Burn a u-boot image to flash
cmp – memory compare
coninfo – print console devices and information
cp – memory copy
crc32 – checksum calculation
dcache – enable or disable data cache
dhcp – boot image via network using DHCP/TFTP protocol
dm – Driver model low level access
echo – echo args to console
editenv – edit environment variable
env – environment handling commands
exit – exit script
ext2load- load binary file from a Ext2 filesystem
ext2ls – list files in a directory (default /)
ext4load- load binary file from a Ext4 filesystem
ext4ls – list files in a directory (default /)
ext4size- determine a file’s size
ext4write- create a file in the root directory
false – do nothing, unsuccessfully
fatinfo – print information about filesystem
fatload – load binary file from a dos filesystem
fatls – list files in a directory (default /)
fatsize – determine a file’s size
fdt – flattened device tree utility commands
fstype – Look up a filesystem type
go – start application at address ‘addr’
gpio – query and control gpio pins
gzwrite – unzip and write memory to block device
help – print command description/usage
hw_info – hw_info

i2c – I2C sub-system
icache – enable or disable instruction cache
iminfo – print header information for application image
imxtract- extract a part of a multi-image
ir – ir – Reading and changing internal register values.

itest – return true/false on integer compare
led – manage LEDs
load – load binary file from a filesystem
loadb – load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
loads – load S-Record file over serial line
loadx – load binary file over serial line (xmodem mode)
loady – load binary file over serial line (ymodem mode)
loop – infinite loop on address range
ls – list files in a directory (default /)
lzmadec – lzma uncompress a memory region
map – Display address decode windows

md – memory display
mdio – MDIO utility commands
mii – MII utility commands
mm – memory modify (auto-incrementing address)
mmc – MMC sub system
mmcinfo – display MMC info
mw – memory write (fill)
nfs – boot image via network using NFS protocol
nm – memory modify (constant address)
part – disk partition related commands
pci – list and access PCI Configuration Space
ping – send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network host
printenv- print environment variables
pxe – commands to get and boot from pxe files
regulator- uclass operations
reset – Perform RESET of the CPU
run – run commands in an environment variable
rx_training- rx_training <cp id> <comphy id>

save – save file to a filesystem
saveenv – save environment variables to persistent storage
scsi – SCSI sub-system
scsiboot- boot from SCSI device
setenv – set environment variables
setexpr – set environment variable as the result of eval expression
sf – SPI flash sub-system
showvar – print local hushshell variables
size – determine a file’s size
sleep – delay execution for some time
source – run script from memory
sspi – SPI utility command
switch – Switch Access commands
sysboot – command to get and boot from syslinux files
test – minimal test like /bin/sh
tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
time – run commands and summarize execution time
true – do nothing, successfully
tsen – tsen – Display the SoC temperature.

unzip – unzip a memory region
usb – USB sub-system
usbboot – boot from USB device
version – print monitor, compiler and linker version
Marvell>>

[tompusateri]

So far we have Arch Linux, OpenWRT, and the default Ubuntu 18.04 LTS working.

[bgv2022]

Able to provide instructions on how to get OpenWRT to work?

[Bryan]

we will be supporting OpenWRT and Ubuntu from the get go with Archlinux ARM and other following after

Bryan

[tompusateri]

For OpenWRT, download the sd-card image from here:

https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/globalscale/globalscale_mochabin

I think all I did was copy onto a USB thumb drive and then execute these commands at the u-boot prompt. I may have had to rename something but I don’t recall.

usb start
ext4load usb 0:1 ${kernel_addr_r} Image
ext4load usb 0:1 ${fdt_addr_r} armada-7040-mochabin.dtb
setenv bootargs $console root=PARTUUID=a1ce8a7c-02 rw rootwait
booti ${kernel_addr_r} – ${fdt_addr_r}

[bgv2022]

when will instructions on how to “support” OpenWRT be provided?

[bgv2022]

Helpful but important to provide details how to get own UUID. Your specific UUID doesn’t work except for your own device.

[bgv2022]

When will better documentation be provided and download links for the compatible images? Seems very premature to release the device with lacking details.

[tompusateri]

I think to find your UUID of the correct partition, use

usb part 0

after you run

usb start

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