[Arm-dev] Add Marvell Armada7k8k NIC (mvpp2) support patches

Fri Oct 5 03:39:07 UTC 2018
Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com>

śr., 3 paź 2018 o 16:10 Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com> napisał(a):
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> śr., 3 paź 2018 o 16:09 Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com> napisał(a):
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> >
> > śr., 3 paź 2018 o 15:44 Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> napisał(a):
> > >
> > > On 10/02/2018 10:12 AM, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Thanks, my question is pretty much entry-level:
> > > > - what is the location of the most recent iso of Centos?
> > > > - how to upgrade its kernel to kernel-alt-4.14.0-49.13.1.el7a
> > > >
> > >
> > > The aarch64 isos live here:
> > >
> > > http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/aarch64/
> > >
> > > Minimal iso will create an minimal install (basically, bootable with
> > > network, firewall, etc) and I normally use it as a basis to install
> > > anything else.
> > >
> > > Once you have a bootable install, this command will update to the latest
> > > everything that is installed (including kernel):
> > >
> > > yum update
> > >
> > > Once you have the update done, reboot and you will be running the latest
> > > kernel.
> > >
> > > Then you can install whatever else you want on the machine with yum.
> > >
> > > If you search on google fro 'yum centos' you will find many tutorials on
> > > how to do things, they are applicable to aarch64 as well as other arches.
> > >
> > > Here is one (ignore the subscription manager stuff .. that is for RHEL
> > > and not CentOS):
> > >
> > > https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-centos-fedora-linux-yum-command-howto/
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Everything works fine, easily I got the integrated NICs working:
[root at localhost ~]# ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state
DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 2048
    link/ether 92:5c:6d:42:49:07 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state
DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 2048
    link/ether b6:e8:ad:2a:c1:33 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: eth2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP
mode DEFAULT group default qlen 2048
    link/ether ee:c5:4a:d3:c7:07 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: enp0s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast
state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000

During the installation, I only had to add 'console=ttyS0,115200' to
the commandline, otherwise there was no output. Afterwards however, it
boots without any intervention.

Thanks,
Marcin