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
>
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