[Arm-dev] Kernel problems on APM X-Gene

Thu Sep 21 10:09:05 UTC 2017
Phong Vo <pvo at apm.com>

Jeremiah,

You will need to use UEFI firmware, either Gigabyte AMI BIOS or APM UEFI
Tianocore,
but the official version would be AMI BIOS which you should contact AMI
for such.

-Phong

+-----Original Message-----
+From: Arm-dev [mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Jeremiah
+Rothschild
+Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 4:32 PM
+To: Conversations around CentOS on ARM hardware
+Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] Kernel problems on APM X-Gene
+
+On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 04:19:55PM +0700, Phong Vo wrote:
+> Jeremiah,
+
+Hi Phong, thank you for the reply.
+
+> Is this on Mustang board? Which version of bootloader are you using?
+
+Pardon me for not being more specific. This is the Gigabyte MP30-AR0
+board.
+
+Using bootloader version:
+U-Boot 2013.04-mp30ar0_sw_1.18.04 (Sep 02 2015 - 16:38:06) REV: F06b (
+uart0 )
+
+> -Phong
+>
+> +-----Original Message-----
+> +From: Arm-dev [mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of
+> +Jeremiah Rothschild
+> +Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 1:45 PM
+> +To: arm-dev at centos.org
+> +Subject: [Arm-dev] Kernel problems on APM X-Gene
+> +
+> +Hey everyone!
+> +
+> +I cannot get any kernel past 4.5.0-23.el7.aarch64 to work on APM
+> +X-Gene hardware. This includes the new (CentOS 7.4) 4.11.0-22 kernel.
+> +
+> +The last thing ever displayed during boot is this:
+> +
+> +EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...
+> +EFI stub: Using DTB from configuration table EFI stub: Exiting boot
+> +services and installing virtual address map...
+> +L3c Cache: 8MB
+> +
+> +which is usual. However, nothing is logged to /var/log/messages
+> +(presumably it isn't making it far enough in the boot process) and
+> +I'm not sure how to further troubleshoot the issue.
+> +
+> +Has anyone else been successful? Are there new patches I am unaware
+of?
+> +Can someone please help me debug deeper?
+> +
+> +Thanks in advance!
+> +
+> +j
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