[Arm-dev] MP30-AR0/AR1 - Tianocore Firmware

Fri Jun 26 18:48:14 UTC 2020
Gordan Bobic <gordan at redsleeve.org>

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
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> *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
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> *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
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