Re: Gigabyte MP30-AR1
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 02:58:47PM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote:
> Hi Hector,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> Hector Oron wrote:
> >Which BMC firmware are you using? AFAIK there is a broken DTB in the
> >manufacturer's firmware
>
> I replaced the shipped UEFI firmware (version D03 I think) with version
> F01 from http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5912#bios .
> Any idea if that is supposed to fix the DTB? There doesn't seem to be
> a changelog :-(
>
> Do you think that the broken DTB would explain the issue I was seeing?
>
> (I don't think you mean BMC firmware, but if you do I've not updated
> that - and I've now managed to brick the BMC by attempting to change it
> to "shared network" mode, which seems not to work on this hardware.
> Hopefully I will eventually find some way to reset it back to dedicated
> network mode...)
>
> >therefore using ACPI boot is recommended,
> >however it is not supported until 4.7 kernel series, and then you'll
> >find #834505 (TL,DR; needs to enable ACPI and relocate initramfs
> >within first 32GB of RAM address space). Given all that machine should
> >boot.
>
> Ha OK, I was vaguely aware that there was a setting for ACPI or device tree
> and I was going to try changing it - but maybe there isn't much hope!
>
> Hector, is it you that has been getting the board mentioned in that bug
> working? What's the easiest way for me to duplicate what you've done?
Well since sid has 4.7 kernel, maybe the daily build of the installer
has 4.7 kernel. Hmm, no, just checked, they are 4.6 still. Too bad.
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Len Sorensen
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