Hello Matthew,

Great to hear from you again.

Do you think this could also resolve this problem?

  https://bugzilla.ipfire.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11940

Best,
-Michael

> On 14 Sep 2020, at 02:32, Mathew McBride <matt(a)traverse.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> It's been a while.
> 
> This patch enables ACPI support for ARM64 which allows IPFire to boot on ARM
> "server" machines which use EFI/TianoCore to boot.
> 
> One such example is the QEMU arm64 "virt" machine with an EFI firmware -
> https://releases.linaro.org/reference-platform/enterprise/latest/uefi/
> 
> The arm64 images from "standard" distros (Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/etc.) are
> designed to work with this EFI+ACPI combination.
> 
> There should be no regressions for any current arm64 hardware supported
> by IPFire - Linux will only use ACPI tables if present, if
> not fallback to device tree.
> 
> The use case for this is to run our hardware[1] using the muvirt[2] VM host,
> which also allows some "blending" of OpenWrt functions on the host, e.g
> the host can manage bridging of Ethernet ports and WiFi hostapd
> so IPFire can work with simple Ethernet interfaces for the
> Red/Green/Blue/Orange.
> 
> You can see the Fireinfo profile for the VM here -
> https://fireinfo.ipfire.org/profile/67aa9a9cff94f3ef8f61866197a57106ccdcea4b
> 
> I have successfully speedtested ~1Gbps though
> this virtualized setup so this should provide more than adequate
> performance for most situations.
> 
> It is not possible to run IPFire directly on our LS1088 (Ten64) platform
> at the moment as 4.14 does not have working Ethernet (DPAA2) and PCIe
> controller drivers. It is possible to backport them from later kernels
> (and I did have a go at this a few months ago) - but it is a very large
> patch (>1M lines) and that is before considering any of the features and
> fixes in more recent kernels (e.g backporting PHYLINK).
> 
> When IPFire moves to a newer kernel that would be a good time to revisit this.
> 
> [1] - https://traverse.com.au/products/ten64-networking-platform/
> [2] - https://gitlab.com/traversetech/muvirt
> 
> Mathew McBride (1):
>  kernel: enable ACPI support on ARM64
> 
> config/kernel/kernel.config.aarch64-ipfire | 99 +++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 96 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
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> 2.19.1
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