Re: [PATCH] tests/acceptance: expand Orange Pi PC SD images for NetBSD, Armbian above nearest power of two

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 10/25/20 2:31 AM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi Niek,
>
> On 10/24/20 11:52 PM, Niek Linnenbank wrote:
> > The acceptance tests for the Orange Pi PC need to expand the SD card 
> > images
> > to a size which is a power of two. As Qemu uses the size of the SD 
> > image file
> > as well for the size of the emulated SD card, this can sometimes give 
> > problems
> > for guests that assume a certain minimum size of the SD card.
> >
> > This commit resolves the following acceptance test error for the 
> > NetBSD 9.0 test
> > of the Orange Pi PC by increasing the size of the expanded SD card 
> > image to two times
> > the nearest power of two:
> >
> >     (5/5) 
> > tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_orangepi_uboot_netbsd9: 
> > |console: U-Boot SPL 2020.01+dfsg-1 (Jan 08 2020 - 08:19:44 +0000)
> >    console: DRAM: 1024 MiB
> >    console: Failed to set core voltage! Can't set CPU frequency
> >    /console: Trying to boot from MMC1
> >    console: U-Boot 2020.01+dfsg-1 (Jan 08 2020 - 08:19:44 +0000) 
> > Allwinner Technology
> >    ...
> >    console: Starting kernel ...
> >    console: [   1.0000000] NetBSD/evbarm (fdt) booting ...
> >    ...
> >    console: [   1.3300167] sdmmc0: SD card status: 4-bit, C0
> >    console: [   1.3300167] ld0 at sdmmc0: 
> > <0xaa:0x5859:QEMU!:0x01:0xdeadbeef:0x062>
>
> The test has this comment:
>
>     # This test download a 304MB compressed image and expand it to 2GB
>
> Once uncompressed the image is ~1.2GB before rounding to 2GB.
>
> >    console: [   1.3430678] ld0: 1024 MB, 1040 cyl, 32 head, 63 sec, 
> > 512 bytes/sect x 2097152 sectors
>
> Why the card appears as 1GB??     ^^^^^^^
>
> Can you try reverting commit 6d2d4069c47?
> ("sd: Correct the maximum size of a Standard Capacity SD Memory Card")

Now I remember, I hit the similar problem 2 years ago :S

See the description of the C_SIZE field in CSD register:

  "To indicate 2 GByte card, BLOCK_LEN shall be 1024 bytes."

This model uses a fixed BLOCK_LEN = 512 bytes.

> >    console: [   1.4102580] ld0: 4-bit width, High-Speed/SDR25, 50.000 MHz
> >    console: [   2.0674392] WARNING: 4 errors while detecting hardware; 
> > check system log.
> >    console: [   2.0674392] boot device: ld0
> >    console: [   2.0775401] root on ld0a dumps on ld0b
> >    console: [   2.0977679] vfs_mountroot: can't open root device
> >    console: [   2.0977679] cannot mount root, error = 6
> >    INTERRUPTED: Test interrupted by SIGTERM\nRunner error occurred: 
> > Timeout reached.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Niek Linnenbank <nieklinnenbank@gmail.com>
> > Based-on: ("[RFC PATCH 0/4] tests/acceptance: Test U-Boot/Linux from 
> > Armbian 20.08 on Orange Pi PC")
> > ---
> >   tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py | 10 +++++-----
> >   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)