[Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0

Gordan Bobic gordan at redsleeve.org
Thu Apr 14 10:01:14 UTC 2016


I have seen kernel panics when modprobing SATA and SAS drivers for
cards I was trying to use (Silicon Image and 3ware). Not managed
to get to the bottom of why it happens, though, since the ahci
driver loads without problems.

I haven't tried other add-in cards yet.

Gordan

On 2016-04-14 09:53, LOIC DEVULDER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> No I haven't tried to add a GPU. My motherboard is in a R120-P30
> server which I will use as a test web server and/or virtualization
> server, and I haven't a GPU card at my disposal. Sorry.
> 
> Regard,
> 
> Loic
> ________________________________________
> De : Ronald Maas [ronaldjmaas at gmail.com]
> Envoyé : jeudi 14 avril 2016 05:37
> À : LOIC DEVULDER - U329683
> Cc : Conversations around CentOS on ARM hardware (arm-dev at centos.org)
> Objet : Re: Re: [Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0
> 
> Hi Loic,
> 
> I asked a question to someone working for Applied Micro, and he
> confirmed it was a known issue and that they are working on it. He
> also advised to compile xgene_enet as built-in driver instead of using
> it as a module.
> 
> Other question. Did you have any luck installing a PCIe video card and
> starting either Gnome or KDE desktop? So far I tried nVidia 7800 GT
> (from Apple G5) and Radeon 290X. Although both are recognized by
> lspci, X fails to start. Also dmesg shows some ugly crashes.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Ronald
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:48 AM, LOIC DEVULDER <loic.devulder at mpsa.com> 
> wrote:
>> Hi Ronald,
>> 
>> openSUSE installs without problem but as you already know the network 
>> is not working due to the fact that the xgene_enet is compiled as a 
>> module...
>> I'm compiling an openSUSE kernel with this module statically linked 
>> and I will see whats happen next.
>> 
>> But it's strange to see that the module is not working (lsmod shows 0 
>> for the 'used' column, strange...).
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Loic
>> 
>> -----Message d'origine-----
>> De : Ronald Maas [mailto:ronaldjmaas at gmail.com]
>> Envoyé : samedi 9 avril 2016 07:17
>> À : LOIC DEVULDER - U329683
>> Objet : Fwd: Re: [Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0
>> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Ronald Maas <ronaldjmaas at gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 7:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: Re: [Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0
>> To: arm-dev at centos.org
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Loic,
>> 
>> Centos 7.2 is actually the easiest distribution to install as the
>> xgene_enet driver is build in the kernel instead of compiled as a
>> module. Only thing needed was setting the MAC0 / MAC1 variables in
>> UEFI shell. And then after the Centos installer started, open a Linux
>> shell and run
>> 
>> dhclient eth0
>> 
>> A lot of good information about MP30-AR0 can be found at
>> https://rwmj.wordpress.com/
>> 
>> Debian and OpenSuse could be installed using the full DVD installation
>> image, but then you either need to recompile the kernel or use an
>> alternative PCIe ethernet adapter (haven't tried that). For details
>> how to change .config and recompile the kernel for Debian Testing see
>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-efi/2016/03/msg00020.html
>> 
>> Something similar should work for OpenSuse
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> Ronald Maas
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