[Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0

[Gordan Bobic]

On 12/03/16 07:46, Michael Howard wrote:
> On 11/03/2016 20:02, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> On 11/03/16 17:56, Jeremiah Rothschild wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 05:03:46PM +0000, Michael Howard wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/03/2016 16:45, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:31:20AM +0000, Michael Howard wrote:
>>>>>> 5 seconds only to be precise, at least on my board :)
>>>>> I found TFTP to be slower and more unreliable than that. However my
>>>>> TFTP server is dnsmasq running on an old box,
>>>>
>>>> That could be the reason then. Sdcards are painfully slow so you get
>>>> what you pay for metaphorically speaking. No big deal either way I
>>>> guess but I much prefer tftp here on a completely 1Gb network and a
>>>> tftp server on a 24/7 Xenserver VM.
>>>
>>> Both methods are a little unorthodox - at least in my experience.
>>
>> In the ARM world, booting the kernel straight out of u-boot is the
>> norm. It is how the boot process works on the vast majority of ARM
>> devices. It is loading UEFI at all that is unorthodox. UEFI and BIOS
>> before it are very much x86-isms.
>>
>>> Is there
>>> a spinning disk based solution perhaps, too? I would imagine the chain
>>> could be loaded from any storage resource. Can it be hacked onto an
>>> extra
>>> OS drive partition or something?
>>
>> UEFI requires a FAT partition anyway that you could also use for this.
>> The main question is whether u-boot that ships with this board
>> actually supports SATA. If it does it would be trivially easy to make
>> that work. Ask me again in 48 hours and I'll be able to tell you
>> whether that works on this particular Gigabyte board. :)
>>
> The shipped u-boot does not support sata.

Are you sure about that? Look at the "scsi" command in u-boot. I haven't 
tried whether it actually works yet, but I hope to by the end of the day.

Gordan