Re: MP30-AR0 arm64 sdcard slot not detected
You maybe able to glean information from here ( if you have not already ),
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux.debian.ports.arm/aUr3B8Hqoqw
I was at one time pondering as to weather to get hold of one these but
this was before the whole SBC explosion.
Nige
On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 10:26 AM Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 20 October 2019 09:19:00 Alan Corey wrote:
>
> > Do you have a way to boot a generic kernel as a test? What does ls
> > /dev/sd* look like? How about a USB SD card reader? Reminds me of
> > building a custom kernel and leaving something out by accident. Maybe
> > a dependency of the SD card slot. Weird though.
> >
>
> I've some pi's here, they they always id the sd they boot from
> as /dev/mmcblk+ an identifier, on both a pi3 and a pi4.
> The card readers always sign in ack a dmesg report as /dev/sda|b|c|d etc
> plus the partition number. And thats the same for this stretch on amd64
> as it is on the pi's. No clue of course how your gigabyte bios might
> handle that. I just rebooted this amd64 stretch, I was up to /dev/sdi#
> for the card readers. Lots of traffic there as I build boot cards for
> the pi's, on the pi's but move the image to this machine about half the
> time to write the card. The lack of spare ports on the pi's is the main
> reason as I've a pair of ssd's I use as scratchpads when building new
> images or debs of linuxcnc. The pi's are actually running machine shop
> stuff like metal lathes and multi-axis mills. They run the machines
> nicely, but the video on the pi3 is rather glacial. So once its had
> another 2 hours to warm up I'll open the garage door for working room
> and swap the pi3 running a medium sized (11x54) Sheldon lathe, out for a
> pi4 with about 20x faster video.
>
> I may have grown old at 85, but I've never grown up. :)
>
> The reason I stuck my hand up is that the sd cards are generally accessed
> via an spi path, whereas the mmc's have a more parallel interface for
> higher bandwidth. So to clarify, read the helps for the spi stuff in
> your config as something missing there might preclude the proper
> detection of the sd hardware.
>
> > On Oct 20, 2019 8:30 AM, "Gene Heskett" <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > > On Saturday 19 October 2019 02:29:41 Michael Howard wrote:
> > > > Posted this to wrong list initially, sorry all!
> > > >
> > > > I've just re-installed debian (stretch) on the Gigabyte MP30-AR0
> > > > board using the installer netinst iso (any later install images
> > > > fail) and the sdcard slot is not showing up. The kernel is
> > > > vmlinuz-4.9.0-11-arm64 and I have also rebuilt it ensuring all the
> > > > MMC options I should need are selected.
> > >
> > > I've not run into that, but it my understanding that an sd slot is
> > > an entirely different critter from MMC. So you may want to go thru
> > > your .config again with that in mind.
> > >
> > > > I'm now suspecting a devicetree issue. Checking the output from
> > > > dtc, using 'dtc -I fs -O dts /sys/firmware/devicetree/base' there
> > > > is no mention of mmc. However, an 'mmc' entry exists in the source
> > > > code file 'apm-storm.dtsi', which is 'included' by
> > > > 'apm-mustang.dts', which I'm assuming is the dts file used by the
> > > > kernel build system, I used bindeb-pkg to build the debs.
> > > >
> > > > Previously, I've manually built the image, modules and dtb (last
> > > > occasion using mainline 4.9.2) and the card slot was not a
> > > > problem.
> > > >
> > > > Anybody any ideas as to what's happening? Can I ensure that
> > > > 'bindeb-pkg' uses a specific dts? If so, how?
> > > >
> > > > This system dual boots with RedSleeve and that side is not a
> > > > problem.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Mike.
> > >
> > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > > --
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> > > -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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>
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> --
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
> - Louis D. Brandeis
> Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
>
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