[Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0

[Jon Masters]

Supposedly they are switching this board to UEFI. That was promised to me months ago. I will be following up (yet again) to remind them that a system cannot be advertised as SBSA and SBBR compliant if it is not so compliant when shipped.

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> On Feb 20, 2016, at 04:06, Phong Vo <pvo at apm.com> wrote:
> 
> In theory, you just need to convert CentOS vmlinuz to uImage, then do U-boot
> boot using the dtb and
> CentOS initrd.img; but somehow it hangs on me. I'll need to dig into it
> further.
> 
> I am not aware that it was shipped only with U-boot. If you want to try with
> UEFI, take it from my dropbox
> 
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20403943/mp30ar0_tianocore_binaries.tar.xz
> 
> mp30ar0_tianocore_media.img: burn to SPI NOR if you want to replace U-boot
> permanently
> 
> But if you want to chain boot from the existing U-boot,
> # setenv num_cores 1
> # reset
> 
> # setenv load_tianocore 'tftp 0x4002000000
> ${user_dir}/mp30ar0_tianocore_ubt.fd;tftp 0x1d000000
> ${user_dir}/mp30ar0_tianocore_sec_ubt.fd'
> # setenv run_tianocore 'go 0x1d000000'
> # run load_tianocore run_tianocore
> 
> To install CentOS 7.2, the fastest would be to take
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7.2.1511/isos/aarch64/CentOS-7-aarch64-Everything.iso
> 
> and image it on a USB drive ~8GB
>  dd if=CentOS-7-aarch64-Everything.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=1M
> 
> Insert the USB drive to the board,
> + boot tianocore to prompt
> + select Shell (it should display a list of storage FS0, FS1, FS2, etc. and
> note the USB)
> + type FS0: (or FS1: if that does not work)
> + type EFI\BOOT\BOOTAA64.EFI
> 
> and this should bring you to the CentOS installer prompt.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: arm-dev-bounces at centos.org [mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Gordan Bobic
> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 6:12 PM
> To: Conversations around CentOS on ARM hardware
> Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0
> 
>> On 2016-02-19 10:57, Phong Vo wrote:
>> Gordan,
>> 
>> There were some quirks with CentOS 7.1, but this should be working
>> perfectly
>> fine with
>> latest CentOS 7.2 aarch64 release.
> 
> 
> The board appears to ship with u-boot rather than UEFI firmware. Does
> the image work with u-boot?
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: arm-dev-bounces at centos.org [mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org] On
>> Behalf Of Gordan Bobic
>> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 5:00 PM
>> To: Conversations around CentOS on ARM hardware
>> Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0
>> 
>> These appear to finally be available in UK now:
>> https://www.xcase.co.uk/gigabyte-server-boards/gigabyte-mp30-ar0-with-appliedmicror-x-gene1r-processor.html
>> 
>> Unfortunately, things don't work right out of the box:
>> https://www.mail-archive.com/users@lists.redsleeve.org/msg01274.html
>> 
>> Has anyone got CentOS installer working with this board? £600 is an
>> awful lot to spend on a paper weight.
>> 
>> Gordan
>> 
>>> On 2015-09-22 00:18, Jim Perrin wrote:
>>>> On 09/16/2015 07:16 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I am toying with the idea of getting a Gigabyte MP30-AR0 board
>>>> (despite the insanely exorbitant price tag). Has anyone got the
>>>> aarch64 CentOS working on one of those? Any special instructions?
>>>> 
>>>> Also, if I get the ISO, is it bootable on aarch64? Does the
>>>> installer work? Or does the image have to be used like on 32-bit
>>>> ARM?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This board is based on the APM xgene, which we've used and tested
>>> fairly
>>> heavily. It *should* just work out of the box.
>> 
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