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[Alexander Gall <>]

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On Thu, 15 Sep 2022 07:31:54 +0200, mc36 <> said:

> dear packaging team, please oick this one once you're back...
> i oersonally run my stordis in bsp-less mode for a while....
> thanks,
> cs


> On 8/30/22 20:52, sonicepk wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have installed freeRouter v22.7.13-cur on a Stordis BF2556X-1TA1F using 
>> the ONIE install and tna-install-experimental at the suggestion of Csaba 
>> back in early July.
>> 
>> What I noticed is that on a reboot the console gets stuck with lots of 
>> error messages about the ports not being found. I suspect this is related 
>> to the Stordis gearbox.
>> "2022-08-30 20:03:43.579864 BF_BFRT ERROR - BF_RT_SERVER:table_read:2500 
>> Entry not found in table:$PORT_HDL_INFO Object not found"

This is not related to the gearbox. It's a side-effect of probing for
existing ports when the bf_forwarder starts up (the SDE currently
doesn't support iterating over the elements of the $PORT_HDL_INFO
table so we just query a range of ports and check for existing
entries; hitting a non-existent entry generates these log messages).

>> 
>> If I hit return a few times, I get a strange prompt: "@@@1001 
>> <https://github.com/1001>!!!###->" I have used exit/quit and eventually a 
>> bash terminal starts and you can log in as 
>> normal.

This is the Marvell gearbox software that includes a kind of shell
that attaches to the serial port and interfers with the console
login. It's part of the "SAL" (Switch Abstraction Layer") that also
launches bf_switchd on the BF2556. In fact, APS has released new
versions of the BSP and the SAL (still based on SDE 9.7) that fixes
this issue (among other things). I have switched to those versions two
days ago
(https://bitbucket.software.geant.org/projects/RARE/repos/rare-nix/commits/c157e9123d611905586ccee2601c48b9fe1e072b).
 You
can upgrade to that version of RARE with "tna-install-latest". That
will also move freertr to v22.8.27 (commit 5f077157). As usual, you
can install the newest freertr version with
"tna-install-experimental".

Caveat: I didn't do much testing with the new BSP but it appears to
work ok. However, you should avoid the "tmp_show", "vrail_show" and
"fan_show" commands in the bf_pltfm.chss_mgmt UCLI context. They all
crash bf_switchd (this won't be fixed by APS as they are now working
on the BSP for 9.9.1)

-- 
Alex

>> 
>> Software: ONIE install with release-1-62-g682d28c-free Debian11_0 
>> 5.10.0-8-amd64 stordis_bf2556x_1t 2022-07-13 12:34:15.941461793
>> 
>> Attached is the console output during a reboot.
>> p4-cwt1-stordis-console.txt 
>> <https://github.com/rare-freertr/freeRtr/files/9455643/p4-cwt1-stordis-console.txt>
>> 
>> Thanks for your help.
>> 
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