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 <ghesk...@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" <ghesk...@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 > > > -- > > > "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> > > > 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> > -- “Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.” Alan Turing
