[Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0

Sat Mar 12 13:36:04 UTC 2016
Gordan Bobic <gordan at redsleeve.org>

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?

Gordan