Hi Everyone,
While debugging production boot issues at Seeed for the BBAI64, @Nishanth_Menon has identified one of the boot up issues here at Random System lockup during kernel bootup. (#47) · Issues · BeagleBoard.org / BeagleBone AI-64 · GitLab
I just merged a workaround for this into our device tree source at:
and is part of the 5.10.120-ti-arm64-r66 tag, available now.
This will stop ‘auto-loading’ the r5 on startup by default for edge-ai applications. I’ll be adding a systemd bb-start-vision-apps-eaik-8-2.service to load core0 and core1 in proper order later this afternoon.
For right now, all any kernel prior to 5.10.120-ti-arm64-r66 will auto-load the R5 and ‘could’ still in testing/theory randomly load/start core1 before core0 and lockup… This specific R5 complex is in Split-mode, so it’s very special, and unique for anything we’ve ever dealt with before.
Summary
- You need to apply this kernel update (via
sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade -y) to avoid potential lock-up issues - This will break the current Edge AI demos (until you enable the new systemd service file)
- We are working on a fix to restore the Edge AI demos, with the bb-start-vision-apps-eaik-8-2.service file
Fix:
sudo apt update ; sudo apt upgrade ; \
sudo systemctl enable bb-start-vision-apps-eaik-8-2.service ; \
sudo reboot
On startup, you should see the firmware still load:
[ 9.560818] remoteproc remoteproc16: powering up 5c00000.r5f
[ 9.570759] Adding 2097148k swap on /var/swap. Priority:-2 extents:5 across:5775356k SSFS
[ 9.588792] remoteproc remoteproc16: Booting fw image vision_apps_eaik_8.2/vx_app_rtos_linux_mcu2_0.out, size 572788
[ 9.593810] remoteproc16#vdev0buffer: assigned reserved memory node vision-apps-r5f-dma-memory@a2000000
[ 9.593921] remoteproc16#vdev0buffer: registered virtio4 (type 7)
[ 9.593926] remoteproc remoteproc16: remote processor 5c00000.r5f is now up
[ 9.594416] remoteproc remoteproc17: powering up 5d00000.r5f
[ 9.609988] remoteproc remoteproc17: Booting fw image vision_apps_eaik_8.2/vx_app_rtos_linux_mcu2_1.out, size 297932
[ 9.650482] remoteproc17#vdev0buffer: assigned reserved memory node vision-apps-r5f-dma-memory@a4000000
[ 9.650621] remoteproc17#vdev0buffer: registered virtio5 (type 7)
[ 9.650626] remoteproc remoteproc17: remote processor 5d00000.r5f is now up
[ 10.209538] PVR_K: 782: RGX Firmware image 'rgx.fw.22.104.208.318' loaded
[ 10.245970] PVR_K: 782: Shader binary image 'rgx.sh.22.104.208.318' loaded
If you have this fix, you should now see a ‘8.2’ also in the firmware name:
vision_apps_eaik_8.2/vx_app_rtos_linux_mcu2_0.out
Source for service file and bash script:
Regards,