[Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0

[Michael Howard]

On 12/03/2016 15:17, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> On 12/03/16 13:44, Michael Howard wrote:
>> On 12/03/2016 13:36, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>> On 12/03/16 13:27, Michael Howard wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12/03/2016 13:07, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>>>> On 12/03/16 12:48, Michael Howard wrote:
>>>>>> On 12/03/2016 12:36, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>>>>>> On 12/03/16 12:04, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 22/02/16 05:02, Phong Vo wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The mp30ar0 U-boot has some special memory mapping to accommodate
>>>>>>>>> 32-bit
>>>>>>>>> DMA.
>>>>>>>>> Please download the tar ball again - I've updated the tianocore
>>>>>>>>> UHP for
>>>>>>>>> this.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20403943/mp30ar0_tianocore_binaries.ta 
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> r.xz
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Updated instruction for U-boot chain loading:
>>>>>>>>> MP30AR0# setenv num_cores 1
>>>>>>>>> MP30AR0# setenv DDRBASE2G 1
>>>>>>>>> MP30AR0# save; reset
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I just did this part and it seems to have semi-bricked the 
>>>>>>>> board. It
>>>>>>>> gets as far as:
>>>>>>>> ===
>>>>>>>> U-Boot 2013.04 (Jun 02 2015 - 10:54:10)ooREV: 1.15.01-F05 ( 
>>>>>>>> uart0 )
>>>>>>>> ===
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> and it just stops.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>> As mentioned in one of my other posts , check the vga output or 
>>>>>> serial
>>>>>> output if you are using vga. You have actually only changed one
>>>>>> variable, DDRBASE2G would have already been set.
>>>>>
>>>>> I checked, and DDRBASE2G wasn't defined.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't suppose you managed to get "serial over LAN" working on the
>>>>> BMC? Getting to the actual serial console over ILO is... as
>>>>> unintuitive as it is undocumented...
>>>>>
>>>> Ok, tried SOL and that works here. I used;
>>>>
>>>> ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.81 -U admin -P password sol activate
>>>
>>> You, sir, are awesome. :)
>>> Not to mention right - for some reason u-boot did indeed decide to go
>>> to serial only with no VGA.
>>>
>>> What setting is used to control that?
>> To be honest, I don't know. I've had the box next to me while I've been
>> 'playing' and out of habit tend to use the serial console cos that's
>> what was traditionally available on arm devices. I only discovered the
>> 'switch' from vga/serial by accident having left the usb keyboard
>> plugged in. I did notice that with both (serial & vga) hooked up, not
>> all output appears on vga whilst it does on serial, hence I stuck to
>> serial. I can live without the penguin.
>
> Yes, so can I, and VGA out comes back to life once UEFI loads. Also, 
> unce UEFI loads, the remote network console via the Java client starts 
> to work, too.
>
> Disappointingly, the fact that u-boot seems to arbitrarily decide to 
> stop using local console, does seem to make it's usefulness rather 
> diminished as the first stage boot-loader. :-(
>
> But yay, I have it working! :)
>
> Now to put Tianocore files onto the UEFI partition...
Yes, better than mmc or tftp :)

-- 
Mike Howard