[Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0

Sat Mar 12 07:46:35 UTC 2016
Michael Howard <mike at dewberryfields.co.uk>

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.

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Mike Howard