Banana Pi

Guest · Oct 21, 2014, 7:29 PM

I would have thought a market exists for a device that can replace a SOHO style router directly but runs pfSense. There have to be loads of admins out there who would like to use such a device for telecommuters.
It would have to have usefully functioning wifi and something to make setting up a VPN very easy (even easier!). You might have to use some new install type though I guess there are plenty of devices that would meet the requirements for Nano these days.
I'm not sure this is it though. Do you really need an HDMI port on your router?

Steve

No, you don't need (nor want) an HDMI port on your router. The issue is that most of the cost of having that port (and the audio port, and camera port) have already been paid for (all the gates are already in the SoC). The BPI router makes me grouchy because it has a 10/100 port and a 10/100/1000 port (guess which one is attached to the switch!). Even, then, I've ordered a couple.

We had the Hackathon last week, and have most of pfSense working on the Beaglebone Black. It's not a big stretch to make it work on the BPI router. There are a lot of reasons for my push onto FreeBSD 10 (pfSense 2.2 will be based on FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE), and getting to more platforms is one.

Guest · Oct 21, 2014, 7:55 PM

@gonzopancho:

… have most of pfSense working on the Beaglebone Black. ...

That's awesome news. I've been running RasPBX on BBB at home for a couple of months now. Prior to that it was an Raspberry Pi for more than a year (maybe two).
I would love to put my hands on a cookbook to run pfSense on BBB. Any attempts I made with a couple of colleagues to run it on BBB miserably failed although at one point we got FreeBSD to work for a while (then we messed something and we couldn't go back on our steps).
So, is there any notes you can share?
Halea

Guest · Oct 28, 2014, 4:49 AM

when it's ready

toomeek · Nov 26, 2014, 7:24 PM

Erm.. well.. long time since first post.
I see You're digging my topic :>

Anyway Beaglebone Black runs 100Mbit Ethernet, while BPi is 1Gbit which can be saturated easily,
but there is no GMAC driver for it in FreeBSD head yet.
My dream would be working tagged VLANs over GMAC driver that can handle at least 250Mbit up/down speeds on this small device..

FlashPan · Nov 26, 2014, 9:16 PM

I just found this:

5 port banana

http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Newest-arrive-BPI-R1-Opensource-Router-Original-Banana-pi/302756_2045261784.html

Guest · Nov 30, 2014, 3:33 AM

I have two on my desk. 8) 8)

stephenw10 · Nov 30, 2014, 3:20 PM

What's your opinion of them? :)

Steve

Guest · Dec 1, 2014, 11:32 AM

so far? Meh.

badon · Dec 13, 2014, 7:10 AM

OK, so Banana Pi's A7 ARM processor isn't ideal for pfSense, but nonetheless, I very much support the idea pfSense being able to run on something smaller than a netbook. Something pocket-portable and battery powered would be perfect for me to ensure I always have pfSense between me and the wild internet, wherever I am. Not being able to function on routers and other small devices like the Raspberry Pi greatly limits the usefulness of pfSense, despite the fact that pfSense is otherwise ideally suited to them. Instead, the best we can get is OpenWRT and DD-WRT, which simply isn't pfSense.

badon · Dec 15, 2014, 1:56 AM

@gonzopancho:

we are interested in the ARM devices market. Netgate is about to pick-up the Beaglebone Black.

firewalluser · Dec 14, 2014, 3:54 PM

Might be useful, list of ARM boards which support to some degree freebsd.

https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/arm.html

The architecture of the ARM CPU's make it ideal for multi threading programs compared to the Intel/AMD chips when considering the CPU delays caused by the L1/L2 misses but who spots their L2 cache misses except when compiling perhaps?

Considering how ARM is used pervasively for things like routers, set top tv boxes and smart phones which now out number pc's, personally I'd say pfsense would well suited to ARM boards.

badon · Dec 15, 2014, 3:22 AM

I'm hoping to see something assembled and tested from Netgate that has 2 ethernet ports. So far, they only have the kits. If we're lucky, maybe someday ARM will move up from Tier 2 to Tier 1 in FreeBSD. Since pfSense is updating to FreeBSD 10.1, maybe we'll get some extra ARM support from that.

Guest · Dec 16, 2014, 9:01 AM

Maybe

Guest · Dec 16, 2014, 9:03 AM

@firewalluser:

The architecture of the ARM CPU's make it ideal for multi threading programs compared to the Intel/AMD chips when considering the CPU delays caused by the L1/L2 misses but who spots their L2 cache misses except when compiling perhaps?

What are you trying to say?

DiskWizard · Dec 23, 2014, 3:16 PM

Still waiting for the board of my dream to become reality

firewalluser · Dec 24, 2014, 8:17 AM

The L1 & L2 cache misses for things like Out of Loop prefetches can add a 15% delay to proceeding according to a paper I read.

DiskWizard · Mar 16, 2015, 1:59 PM

Okay TooMeeK.

You can start up MII interface as separate compile option at Uboot

CONFIG_CMD_MII

necron · Mar 16, 2015, 8:29 PM

Any serious progress with this?
Gonzo, at https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=79007.msg465109#msg465109 you mention not being impressed.
Is this because you have very high standards?
Personally I'm looking for a decent replacement of a 19" 2U micro ATX box running pfsense for my home and small company.
IMHO it could easily run on a BPi hardware, since it has nothing to do all day ;D

toomeek · Mar 26, 2015, 9:26 PM

@DiskWizard:

Okay TooMeeK.

You can start up MII interface as separate compile option at Uboot

CONFIG_CMD_MII

Thank You for this information and PM. And sorry for delay with response, busy week :(

I've downloaded both latest U-boot versions from following sources:
git clone https://github.com/linux-sunxi/u-boot-sunxi.git
git clone git://git.denx.de/u-boot.git

Added CONFIG_CMD_MII to:
boards.cfg in case of Sunxi source
Configuring for Bananapi - Board: sun7i, Options: BANANAPI,SPL,SUNXI_GMAC,RGMII,MACPWR=SUNXI_GPH(23),STATUSLED=244,STATUSLED1=245,FAST_MBUS,CONFIG_CMD_MII
or
include/configs/sunxi-common.h entry #define CONFIG_CMD_MII in case of mainline source.

Compiled it:
gmake -j4 ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-eabi- HOSTCC=cc USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC=yes clean
gmake -j4 ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-eabi- HOSTCC=cc USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC=yes Bananapi_config
gmake -j4 ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-eabi- HOSTCC=cc USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC=yes

Then tested one by one on my boot image:
# Cubieboard's 2 / BananaPi U-boot loader
dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin conv=notrunc of=banana.img bs=1024 seek=8

Sources used:
http://linux-sunxi.org/LeMaker_Banana_Pi
https://github.com/LeMaker/linux-sunxi
http://linux-sunxi.org/Mainline_U-boot
http://linux-sunxi.org/U-Boot
and my own scripts.

Hardware used:
BPi
1 x 4GB USB 2.0
1 x 32GB microSD card + adapter
1 x RS232 to USB converter, pl2303 based, read-only
Software used:
FreeBSD 10.0 64-bit VM
Linux Mint 64-bit OS
FreeBSD 10.0 64-bit OS for BPi

Image output summary is:
banana.img - 940MB - bootable SD card image
banana_data.img - 1024MB - OS data on USB drive

STATUS:
1. Normal booting process with an older U-boot take around 10 minutes to reach login prompt first time (generating RSA keys and so), then 415 seconds during normal boot. It takes 3 minutes to startup sshd service. No networking.
The output is on the screenshot and full log here:

U-Boot 2013.07-07794-gc0f3b94 (Aug 15 2013 - 18:01:45) Allwinner Technology

CPU:   Allwinner A20 (SUN7I)
Board: Cubieboard2
I2C:   ready
DRAM:  1 GiB
MMC:   SUNXI SD/MMC: 0
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   emac
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  3  2  1  0 
reading uEnv.txt
** Unable to read file uEnv.txt **
Failed to mount ext2 filesystem...
** Unrecognized filesystem type **
Failed to mount ext2 filesystem...
** Unrecognized filesystem type **
reading boot.scr
119 bytes read in 9 ms (12.7 KiB/s)
Jumping to boot.scr
## Executing script at 44000000
reading kernel
4868872 bytes read in 215 ms (21.6 MiB/s)
## Starting application at 0x40200100 ...
KDB: debugger backends: ddb
KDB: current backend: ddb
Copyright (c) 1992-2014 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE #16: Sun Aug 31 17:38:34 CEST 2014
    root@freebsd:/usr/obj/arm.armv6/usr/src/sys/BANANAPI arm
FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 183502) 20130610
WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance.
WARNING: DIAGNOSTIC option enabled, expect reduced performance.
CPU: Cortex A7 rev 4 (Cortex-A core)
 Supported features: ARM_ISA THUMB2 JAZELLE THUMBEE ARMv4 Security_Ext
 WB disabled EABT branch prediction enabled
LoUU:2 LoC:2 LoUIS:2 
Cache level 1: 
 32KB/64B 4-way data cache WB Read-Alloc Write-Alloc
 32KB/32B 2-way instruction cache Read-Alloc
Cache level 2: 
 256KB/64B 8-way unified cache WB Read-Alloc Write-Alloc
real memory  = 1073741824 (1024 MB)
avail memory = 1043943424 (995 MB)
random device not loaded; using insecure entropy
random: <software, yarrow=""> initialized
simplebus0: <flattened device="" tree="" simple="" bus=""> on fdtbus0
gic0: <arm generic="" interrupt="" controller=""> mem 0x1c81000-0x1c81fff,0x1c82000-0x1c820ff on simplebus0
gic0: pn 0x10, arch 0x2, rev 0x1, implementer 0x43b nirqs 160
a20_cpu_cfg0: <a20 cpu="" configuration="" module=""> mem 0x1c25c00-0x1c25fff on simplebus0
a10_ccm0: <allwinner clock="" control="" module=""> mem 0x1c20000-0x1c203ff on simplebus0
a10_timer0: <allwinner a10="" a20="" timer=""> mem 0x1c20c00-0x1c20c8f irq 54 on simplebus0
Event timer "a10_timer Eventtimer" frequency 24000000 Hz quality 1000
Timecounter "a10_timer timer0" frequency 24000000 Hz quality 1000
a10wd0: <allwinner a10="" watchdog=""> mem 0x1c20c90-0x1c20c9f on simplebus0
gpio0: <allwinner gpio="" controller=""> mem 0x1c20800-0x1c20bff irq 60 on simplebus0
gpioc0: <gpio controller=""> on gpio0
gpiobus0: <gpio bus=""> on gpio0
ehci0: <allwinner integrated="" usb="" 2.0="" controller=""> mem 0x1c14000-0x1c14fff irq 71 on simplebus0
usbus0: EHCI version 1.0
usbus0 on ehci0
ehci1: <allwinner integrated="" usb="" 2.0="" controller=""> mem 0x1c1c000-0x1c1cfff irq 72 on simplebus0
usbus1: EHCI version 1.0
usbus1 on ehci1
uart0: <16750 or compatible> mem 0x1c28000-0x1c283ff irq 33 on simplebus0
uart0: console (115200,n,8,1)
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
usbus0: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
usbus1: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
ugen1.1: <allwinner> at usbus1
uhub0: <allwinner 1="" 9="" ehci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.00,="" addr=""> on usbus1
ugen0.1: <allwinner> at usbus0
uhub1: <allwinner 1="" 9="" ehci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.00,="" addr=""> on usbus0
random: unblocking device.
WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance.
WARNING: DIAGNOSTIC option enabled, expect reduced performance.
uhub0: 1 port with 1 removable, self powered
uhub1: 1 port with 1 removable, self powered
Root mount waiting for: usbus1 usbus0
ugen0.2: <ralink> at usbus0
ugen1.2: <mode com=""> at usbus1
umass0: <mode 0="" 2="" com="" memodrive="" usb2.0,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.10,="" addr=""> on usbus1
umass0:  SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x4100
umass0:0:0:-1: Attached to scbus0
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <mode com="" memodrive="" usb2.0="" pmap=""> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device 
da0: Serial Number 90891A001774
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
da0: 3822MB (7827456 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 487C)
da0: quirks=0x2 <no_6_byte>Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0 []...
WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set accurately
Setting hostuuid: f90b367e-3129-11e4-ae46-3f68a54463b5.
Setting hostid: 0xa395f285.
Entropy harvesting: interrupts ethernet point_to_point swi.
Starting file system checks:
Expensive timeout(9) function: 0xc0263848(0xc3864c78) 0.002801708 s
Expensive timeout(9) function: 0xc04ad3a8(0) 0.011151875 s
/dev/da0: 12431 files, 67813 used, 186018 free (818 frags, 23150 blocks, 0.3% fragmentation)
Mounting local file systems:.
Writing entropy file:.
Setting hostname: banana-freebsd.
Starting Network: lo0.
lo0: flags=8049 <up,loopback,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 16384
	options=600003 <rxcsum,txcsum,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6>inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
	nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>Starting devd.
route: writing to routing socket: Network is unreachable
add net default: gateway 192.168.137.1 fib 0: Network is unreachable
add net fe80::: gateway ::1
add net ff02::: gateway ::1
add net ::ffff:0.0.0.0: gateway ::1
add net ::0.0.0.0: gateway ::1
Creating and/or trimming log files.
Starting syslogd.
ELF ldconfig path: /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat
Clearing /tmp (X related).
Updating motd:.
Mounting late file systems:.
Performing sanity check on sshd configuration.
Starting sshd.
Starting sendmail_submit.
Starting sendmail_msp_queue.
Starting cron.
Starting background file system checks in 60 seconds.

Sun Aug 31 16:30:13 UTC 2014

FreeBSD/arm (banana-freebsd) (ttyu0)

login:</performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6></up,loopback,running,multicast></no_6_byte></mode></mode></mode></ralink></allwinner></allwinner></allwinner></allwinner></allwinner></allwinner></gpio></gpio></allwinner></allwinner></allwinner></allwinner></a20></arm></flattened></software,>

2. U-boot from Denx.de often ends up in kernel panic with CONFIG_CMD_MII, like this:

U-Boot 2015.04-rc4-00064-gb81bdf6-dirty (Mar 26 2015 - 01:01:52) Allwinner Technology

CPU:   Allwinner A20 (SUN7I)
I2C:   ready
DRAM:  1 GiB
MMC:   SUNXI SD/MMC: 0
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
SCSI:  SUNXI SCSI INIT
SATA link 0 timeout.
AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 1 ports 3 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode
flags: ncq stag pm led clo only pmp pio slum part ccc apst 
Net:   dwmac.1c50000
starting USB...
USB0:   USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 0 for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found
USB1:   USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 1 for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  2  1  0 
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc 0:1...
Found U-Boot script /boot.scr
reading /boot.scr
119 bytes read in 26 ms (3.9 KiB/s)
## Executing script at 43100000
reading kernel
4868872 bytes read in 246 ms (18.9 MiB/s)
## Starting application at 0x40200100 ...
KDB: debugger backends: ddb
KDB: current backend: ddb
Copyright (c) 1992-2014 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE #16: Sun Aug 31 17:38:34 CEST 2014
    root@freebsd:/usr/obj/arm.armv6/usr/src/sys/BANANAPI arm
FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 183502) 20130610
WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance.
WARNING: DIAGNOSTIC option enabled, expect reduced performance.
panic: lock "vmem list lock" 0xc05f3500 already initialized
KDB: enter: panic
[ thread pid 0 tid 0 ]
Stopped at      0xc034ef38:     ldrb    r15, [r15, r15, ror r15]!
db>

Sometimes it stuck at Starting application at 0x40200100 message. When it boots, there is still no networking or I'm missing the point how FreeBSD recognizes MII devices.
I've static IP configured for the interface, but it founds nothing. Boot in less than 2 minutes if successful. Here's full log:

U-Boot SPL 2015.04-rc4-00064-gb81bdf6-dirty (Mar 26 2015 - 01:01:52)
DRAM: 1024 MiB
CPU: 960000000Hz, AXI/AHB/APB: 3/2/2

U-Boot 2015.04-rc4-00064-gb81bdf6-dirty (Mar 26 2015 - 01:01:52) Allwinner Technology

CPU:   Allwinner A20 (SUN7I)
I2C:   ready
DRAM:  1 GiB
MMC:   SUNXI SD/MMC: 0
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
SCSI:  SUNXI SCSI INIT
SATA link 0 timeout.
AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 1 ports 3 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode
flags: ncq stag pm led clo only pmp pio slum part ccc apst 
Net:   dwmac.1c50000
starting USB...
USB0:   USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 0 for devices... cannot reset port 1!?
1 USB Device(s) found
USB1:   USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 1 for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  2  1  0 
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc 0:1...
Found U-Boot script /boot.scr
reading /boot.scr
119 bytes read in 24 ms (3.9 KiB/s)
## Executing script at 43100000
reading kernel
4868872 bytes read in 246 ms (18.9 MiB/s)
## Starting application at 0x40200100 ...
KDB: debugger backends: ddb
KDB: current backend: ddb
Copyright (c) 1992-2014 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE #16: Sun Aug 31 17:38:34 CEST 2014
    root@freebsd:/usr/obj/arm.armv6/usr/src/sys/BANANAPI arm
FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 183502) 20130610
WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance.
WARNING: DIAGNOSTIC option enabled, expect reduced performance.
CPU: Cortex A7 rev 4 (Cortex-A core)
 Supported features: ARM_ISA THUMB2 JAZELLE THUMBEE ARMv4 Security_Ext
 WB disabled EABT branch prediction enabled
LoUU:2 LoC:2 LoUIS:2 
Cache level 1: 
 32KB/64B 4-way data cache WB Read-Alloc Write-Alloc
 32KB/32B 2-way instruction cache Read-Alloc
Cache level 2: 
 256KB/64B 8-way unified cache WB Read-Alloc Write-Alloc
real memory  = 1073741824 (1024 MB)
avail memory = 1043943424 (995 MB)
random device not loaded; using insecure entropy
random: <software, yarrow=""> initialized
simplebus0: <flattened device="" tree="" simple="" bus=""> on fdtbus0
gic0: <arm generic="" interrupt="" controller=""> mem 0x1c81000-0x1c81fff,0x1c82000-0x1c820ff on simplebus0
gic0: pn 0x10, arch 0x2, rev 0x1, implementer 0x43b nirqs 160
a20_cpu_cfg0: <a20 cpu="" configuration="" module=""> mem 0x1c25c00-0x1c25fff on simplebus0
a10_ccm0: <allwinner clock="" control="" module=""> mem 0x1c20000-0x1c203ff on simplebus0
a10_timer0: <allwinner a10="" a20="" timer=""> mem 0x1c20c00-0x1c20c8f irq 54 on simplebus0
Event timer "a10_timer Eventtimer" frequency 24000000 Hz quality 1000
Timecounter "a10_timer timer0" frequency 24000000 Hz quality 1000
a10wd0: <allwinner a10="" watchdog=""> mem 0x1c20c90-0x1c20c9f on simplebus0
gpio0: <allwinner gpio="" controller=""> mem 0x1c20800-0x1c20bff irq 60 on simplebus0
gpioc0: <gpio controller=""> on gpio0
gpiobus0: <gpio bus=""> on gpio0
ehci0: <allwinner integrated="" usb="" 2.0="" controller=""> mem 0x1c14000-0x1c14fff irq 71 on simplebus0
usbus0: EHCI version 1.0
usbus0 on ehci0
ehci1: <allwinner integrated="" usb="" 2.0="" controller=""> mem 0x1c1c000-0x1c1cfff irq 72 on simplebus0
usbus1: EHCI version 1.0
usbus1 on ehci1
uart0: <16750 or compatible> mem 0x1c28000-0x1c283ff irq 33 on simplebus0
uart0: console (115200,n,8,1)
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
usbus0: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
usbus1: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
ugen1.1: <allwinner> at usbus1
uhub0: <allwinner 1="" 9="" ehci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.00,="" addr=""> on usbus1
ugen0.1: <allwinner> at usbus0
uhub1: <allwinner 1="" 9="" ehci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.00,="" addr=""> on usbus0
random: unblocking device.
WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance.
WARNING: DIAGNOSTIC option enabled, expect reduced performance.
uhub0: 1 port with 1 removable, self powered
uhub1: 1 port with 1 removable, self powered
Root mount waiting for: usbus1 usbus0
Root mount waiting for: usbus1
ugen1.2: <mode com=""> at usbus1
umass0: <mode 0="" 2="" com="" memodrive="" usb2.0,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.10,="" addr=""> on usbus1
umass0:  SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x4100
umass0:0:0:-1: Attached to scbus0
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <mode com="" memodrive="" usb2.0="" pmap=""> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device 
da0: Serial Number 90891A001774
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
da0: 3822MB (7827456 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 487C)
da0: quirks=0x2 <no_6_byte>Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0 []...
WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set accurately
Setting hostuuid: f90b367e-3129-11e4-ae46-3f68a54463b5.
Setting hostid: 0xa395f285.
Entropy harvesting: interrupts ethernet point_to_point swi.
Starting file system checks:
/dev/da0: 12442 files, 67826 used, 186005 free (837 frags, 23146 blocks, 0.3% fragmentation)
Mounting local file systems:.
Writing entropy file:.
Setting hostname: banana-freebsd.
Starting Network: lo0.
lo0: flags=8049 <up,loopback,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 16384
	options=600003 <rxcsum,txcsum,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6>inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
	nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>Starting devd.
route: writing to routing socket: Network is unreachable
add net default: gateway 192.168.137.1 fib 0: Network is unreachable
add net fe80::: gateway ::1
add net ff02::: gateway ::1
add net ::ffff:0.0.0.0: gateway ::1
add net ::0.0.0.0: gateway ::1
Creating and/or trimming log files.
Starting syslogd.
ELF ldconfig path: /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat
Clearing /tmp (X related).
Updating motd:.
Mounting late file systems:.
Performing sanity check on sshd configuration.
Starting sshd.
Starting sendmail_submit.
Starting sendmail_msp_queue.
Starting cron.
Starting background file system checks in 60 seconds.

Sun Aug 31 16:33:37 UTC 2014

FreeBSD/arm (banana-freebsd) (ttyu0)

login:</performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6></up,loopback,running,multicast></no_6_byte></mode></mode></mode></allwinner></allwinner></allwinner></allwinner></allwinner></allwinner></gpio></gpio></allwinner></allwinner></allwinner></allwinner></a20></arm></flattened></software,>

When I put following commands into boot script: help mii; mii device; mii info 1; then the output is:

U-Boot 2015.04-rc4-00064-gb81bdf6-dirty (Mar 26 2015 - 01:01:52) Allwinner Technology

CPU:   Allwinner A20 (SUN7I)
I2C:   ready
DRAM:  1 GiB
MMC:   SUNXI SD/MMC: 0
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
SCSI:  SUNXI SCSI INIT
SATA link 0 timeout.
AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 1 ports 3 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode
flags: ncq stag pm led clo only pmp pio slum part ccc apst 
Net:   dwmac.1c50000
starting USB...
USB0:   USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 0 for devices... cannot reset port 1!?
1 USB Device(s) found
USB1:   USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 1 for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  2  1  0 
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc 0:1...
Found U-Boot script /boot.scr
reading /boot.scr
106 bytes read in 24 ms (3.9 KiB/s)
## Executing script at 43100000
mii - MII utility commands

Usage:
mii device                     - list available devices
mii device <devname>           - set current device
mii info   <addr>              - display MII PHY info
mii read   <addr> <reg>        - read  MII PHY <addr> register <reg>
mii write  <addr> <reg> <data> - write MII PHY <addr> register <reg>
mii dump   <addr> <reg>        - pretty-print <addr> <reg> (0-5 only)
Addr and/or reg may be ranges, e.g. 2-7.
MII devices: 'dwmac.1c50000' 
Current device: 'dwmac.1c50000'
PHY 0x01: OUI = 0x0732, Model = 0x11, Rev = 0x05,  10baseT, HDX
SCRIPT FAILED: continuing...
Failed to mount ext2 filesystem...
** Unrecognized filesystem type **
scanning bus for devices...
Found 0 device(s).

SCSI device 0: 
    Device 0: not available

USB device 0: 
    Device 0: Vendor: Mode Com Rev: PMAP Prod: MemoDrive USB2.0
            Type: Removable Hard Disk
            Capacity: 3822.0 MB = 3.7 GB (7827456 x 512)
... is now current device
dwmac.1c50000 Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete...... done
Speed: 1000, full duplex
BOOTP broadcast 1
BOOTP broadcast 2
BOOTP broadcast 3
BOOTP broadcast 4
BOOTP broadcast 5
BOOTP broadcast 6
BOOTP broadcast 7
BOOTP broadcast 8
BOOTP broadcast 9
BOOTP broadcast 10
BOOTP broadcast 11
BOOTP broadcast 12
BOOTP broadcast 13
BOOTP broadcast 14
BOOTP broadcast 15
BOOTP broadcast 16
BOOTP broadcast 17

Retry time exceeded; starting again
Speed: 1000, full duplex</reg></addr></reg></addr></reg></addr></data></reg></addr></reg></addr></reg></addr></addr></devname>

3. U-boot from Sunxi seems to be stuck on loading kernel command with CONFIG_CMD_MII. Didn't tried other settings.

UPDATE:
Well, it seems that I simply missed:

# PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code.
# NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these NICs!
device          miibus     # MII bus support

in the kernel config. Will try this later.

UPDATE2:
Not exacly.. it is here already:
file: /usr/src/sys/arm/conf/BANANAPI

# Ethernet
device          loop
device          ether
device          mii
device          smscphy
#device         cpsw
device          bpf

# USB ethernet support, requires miibus
device          miibus
device          gem

UPDATE3:
After reading:

MII devices: 'dwmac.1c50000' 
Current device: 'dwmac.1c50000'
PHY 0x01: OUI = 0x0732, Model = 0x11, Rev = 0x05,  10baseT, HDX

I've found something here:
http://linux-sunxi.org/Ethernet

Allwinner's A20, A31, and the upcoming A80 contain a MAC unit called GMAC. The controller supports MII and RGMII modes. On the A20 it is pin compatible with the EMAC in MII mode. The controller is an early version of the Synopsys DWMAC (DesignWare MAC), with some hardware specific glue.

Mainline Kernel driver
DWMAC is supported by the stmmac driver. Platform glue for sunxi was merged in 3.14\. Device tree patches for supported A20 devices were merged in 3.15.

Then driver docs here:
http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt?v=linux-2.6;im=3
STMicroelectronics 10/100/1000 Synopsys Ethernet driver
but I'm unable to locate this for MII config in FreeBSD kernel.

Guest · Oct 3, 2015, 12:24 AM

I just wanted to add that FreeBSD11 Current now has an image available on the ARMv6 builds page. Just added..

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm/armv6/ISO-IMAGES/11.0/