Re: Gigabyte MP30-AR1

["Phil Endecott" <spam_from_debian_arm@chezphil.org>]

lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 05:47:34PM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote:
> > (BTW, note "EFI v2.40 by American Megatrends".  I think that the people
> > who've installed UEFI on their MP30-AR0 boards (which shipped with only
> > U-Boot) have installed the open-source TianoCore.  This is presumably
> > something different.  Its predominant characteristic for me is how
> > extraordinarily slow it is; it takes 3 minutes from powering on to
> > showing the Gigabyte logo, and another minute to show a boot logo.  It's
> > as if it's interpreting x86 code, or running from a serial ROM, or
> > something.)
>
> For a server that isn't that unusual.  They often run very extensive
> power on diagnostics.  I think one of the IBM power servers I have dealt
> with took 2 minutes from connecting power before you could even press
> the power button, and then it took several minutes before the firmware
> interface appeared after you hit the button.  x86 servers often take
> several minutes too.

The output on the serial port doesn't look like it's doing self-tests;
mostly it seems to be loading its own modules, which often have DEBUG
in their names.  And that's all after the BMC has booted.  I'm curious
to know what MP30-AR0 users see.


Cheers,  Phil.