I'll jump in to add that XCase also has a 1U rackmount with dual 10GB lan, for not much more. If you guys can get a working system, I'll start saving for this!
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Gordan Bobic <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016-02-13 16:01, Michael Howard wrote: > >> On 13/02/2016 15:34, Gordan Bobic wrote: >> >>> On 2016-02-13 15:19, Michael Howard wrote: >>> >>>> On 13/02/2016 10:50, Gordan Bobic wrote: >>>> >>> >>> When I asked a similar question about >>>>>>> this board there a few months ago, they seemed to think it should >>>>>>> work >>>>>>> with their standard ARMv8 image. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> I'll try with uboot but I guess the kernel install will not succeed, >>>>>> though I may get a rootfs. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I wouldn't be so sure about the kernel install not succeeding. Most >>>>> things are in place to support wrapping the kernel for uboot (look at >>>>> /sbin/new-kernel-pkg, particularly the mkimage lines). Uboot is actually >>>>> remarkably prolific and well supported. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> The centos install kernel fails to boot (as does the debian installer >>>> kernel) but, unlike the debian installer, the centos installer fails >>>> to run with the Gigabyte supplied kernel. >>>> >>> >>> Does the supplied kernel come with source/patches? Is it vanilla >>> mainline? Does the current mainline work without patches? >>> >>> >>> >> That would be too easy. No, there is no source nor patches. The board >> comes with OpenLinux built-in, with a 3.12 (3.12.0-mp30ar0_sw_1.18.04) >> kernel which doesn't appear to be vanilla mainline. They also provide >> a Ubuntu image which uses the same kernel. The kernel is full fat, no >> external modules and I guess has firmware blobs built in as >> CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y and there is no /lib/firmware/. >> > > It might be time to contact Gigabyte and ask for kernel sources > used and the exact build instructions to produce working kernel. > > Gordan > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- Thanks, Ian M Perkins
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