R: freebsd

[Vincenzo Di Salvo]

Hello guys,

It is a pleasure for me to see that you also appreciate the architecture of the freebsd operating system.

Yes Enrico, Tribunale di Lecce is the Italian Court of the City of Lecce.

Zoran asks me what my goal is. Really difficult to explain in two words. I try.

I apologize with coreboot community if the question is not stricly pertinent to coreboot. It will be in a future email.

BACKGROUND.
My goal is to make raw images of memory devices like USB sticks and SATA hard drives. The images must be connected avoiding to modify the content of the original devices, in particular the timestamps of the files contained in them, which, as it's known, are filesystem dependent.

If I'm not mistaken, when I connect a USB stick or a SATA hard disk to a computer with a Freebsd operating system, the Freebsd recognizes the device at physical level, it creates a node in the / dev directory, but does not bother to understand what it is, that is, for him it is a raw device, so it does not perform dangerous operations like autorun and automount.

It seems to me that in Unix this is the meaning of a character device.

If this is true, the original device is protected and you can proceed to cloning using the dd command.

QUESTIONS AND YOUR TIPS AND CORRECTIONS:

1- What actually happens when you plug in to USB device (you can suggest me a bibliograph to read)
2 - Is there a Unix command that logs in real-time the whole flux, from the physical plugging action of the device to the /dev node creation ?
3 - Verify that the creation of the /dev node only implies that the device is recognized as raw and the O.S. will not be able to access its memory (condition of device write blocked).

See you !!

Best Regards.

Vincenzo.

Da: coreboot [mailto:[e-mail]] Per conto di ron minnich
Inviato: lunedì 4 dicembre 2017 16:52
A: Zoran Stojsavljevic
Cc: Ivan Ivanov; [e-mail]; coreboot
Oggetto: Re: [coreboot] freebsd

if you watch netflix, you're using freebsd. It's a very solid piece of software.

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usbd_req_re_enumerate

[Vincenzo Di Salvo]

Hello guys,

during the freebsd installation I receive these messages:

usbd_req_re_enumerate: addr=2, set address failed! (USB_ERR_IOERROR, ignored)
usbd_setup_device_desc: getting device descriptor at addr 2 failed, USB_ERR_IOERROR
ugen0.2: <Unknown> at usbus0 (disconnected)
uhub_reattach_port: could not allocate new device

These message disappear if in the BIOS I disable the parameter:
USB 1.1 OHCI Controllers,
but so doing I cannot use any USB PORT on my workstation.

QUESTIONS:
1. Please, can you tell me what this means ?

2. Do you know if using Coreboot is it possible avoid this problem ?

Thanks very much in advance.

Vincenzo.

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usbd_req_re_enumerate

[Zoran Stojsavljevic]

I can try to help here. But what you wrote here is not enough.

What info is required here, is (significantly) more, then you wrote here.
I'll try to make some ad-hoc systematic approach. :-)

Phase 1:
[1] What PC/CPU you are using for this purpose (as much detailed info as
possible: make. year, mobo, configuration, etc.)?
[2] What BIOS (UEFI/Legacy, there are only 4 possible cases):
     [A] 64bit (implies automatically UEFI);
     [B] Legacy 16bit;
     [C] Legacy 32bit;
     [D] UEFI 32bit!
[3] BIOS make, year, vendor, any documentation, etc.
> From here, the phase 1 accomplishments is to make USB root hub and external

USB ports to work with BIOS + FreeBSD.

Coreboot + FreeBSD will be the phase 2.

Zoran

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 2:47 AM, Vincenzo Di Salvo <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> during the freebsd installation I receive these messages:
>
> usbd_req_re_enumerate: addr=2, set address failed! (USB_ERR_IOERROR,
> ignored)
> usbd_setup_device_desc: getting device descriptor at addr 2 failed,
> USB_ERR_IOERROR
> ugen0.2: <Unknown> at usbus0 (disconnected)
> uhub_reattach_port: could not allocate new device
>
> These message disappear if in the BIOS I disable the parameter:
> USB 1.1 OHCI Controllers,
> but so doing I cannot use any USB PORT on my workstation.
>
> QUESTIONS:
>
> Please, can you tell me what this means ?
>
> Do you know if using Coreboot is it possible avoid this problem ?
>
> Thanks very much in advance.
>
> Vincenzo.