Thanks, it's 1.1, I didn't think any v1.0 boards were ever released into the retail channel. Gordan On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 7:44 PM Tony Lees - Avantek <tony.lees at avantek.co.uk> wrote: > May be able to assist you with this. > PCB Rev 1.0 or 1.1? > Regards, Tony > ------------------------------ > *From:* Arm-dev <arm-dev-bounces at centos.org> on behalf of Gordan Bobic < > gordan at redsleeve.org> > *Sent:* Friday, June 26, 2020 6:32 pm > *To:* Conversations around CentOS on ARM hardware > *Subject:* [Arm-dev] MP30-AR0/AR1 - Tianocore Firmware > > In my ongoing quest to get my MP30-AR0 to not choke on most PCIe cards I > finally (yes, I know, years late, but I stopped being able to make do > without adding things into the machine), flashed the firmware on it from > u-boot to AMI, thus turning it into an MP30-AR1. > > I was originally intending to flash it with Tianocore, but the download > links for that firmware all point to dropbox, and that link is dead. > > Does anyone have the tianocore firmware for the MP30-AR0 that they could > kindly repost? > I was originally chain-loading Tianocore from u-boot, and that could have > been upsetting something that made RH kernels comprehensively and > consistently crash. Interestingly, my locally built mainline kernels have > always worked (using 4.9.x branch) without even needing acpi=off. It looks > like the Tianocore image I need for flashing to the board may not be the > same as the chainloading firmware, so I wanted to make sure I have the > exact right firmware image to avoid the risk of bricking it. > > FYI, flashing the AR1 firmware via the BMC "just works". > > Anyway, the AMI firmware (AR1) seems to cure some of the problems. I can > now have additional PCIe cards in the machine without this causing an > insta-crash as soon as the driver for the card loads (Marvell SATA and SAS > controllers, Silicon Image SATA controllers, 3ware SAS controllers, it all > ends the same way, with an insta-crash when the driver loads). > > The reason why I want to try Tianocore firmware instead are the following: > > 1) This looks scary at boot time: > SecBoot-0, SecMode-1, DefaultProvision-0, BackDoorVendorKeyChange-0 > > 2) AMI UEFI firmware takes about 5 minutes (no, not an exaggeration) to > get from power-on to showing the grub boot menu. If it wasn't for the > serial console, I would have written the board off as bricked by the > firmware update. > > So - anyone happen to have the Tianocore firmware for the MP30-AR0 that > they wouldn't mind reposting somewhere? > > Many thanks. > > Gordan > _______________________________________________ > Arm-dev mailing list > Arm-dev at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/attachments/20200626/5b8513a0/attachment-0005.html>