Re: vexpress and 11.08

2011-10-10 Thread Dave Martin
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 03:48:09PM +0100, Pawel Moll wrote: > > So I guess it must be no SATA because of broken PCI, > > True. > > > no MMC because of FPGA bugs (now fixed), > > Work-arounded ;-) (hopefully really fixed in near future). > > > no CF card because of (?). > > CF usability depen

Re: vexpress and 11.08

2011-09-26 Thread Pawel Moll
> > * Ethernet > > > > Was buggered, is fixed now :-) > > When did it become un-buggered? According to this bug log: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux-linaro/+bug/673820 (my own entry ;-) it was 2011-08-31. > Tim Klein here is trying to get said > machine to boot over TFTP with NFS root and it

Re: vexpress and 11.08

2011-09-26 Thread Wookey
+++ Pawel Moll [2011-09-26 15:48 +0100]: > > So I guess it must be no SATA because of broken PCI, > > True. > > > no MMC because of FPGA bugs (now fixed), > > Work-arounded ;-) (hopefully really fixed in near future). > > > no CF card because of (?). > > CF usability depends on the card. Mos

Re: vexpress and 11.08

2011-09-26 Thread Pawel Moll
> So I guess it must be no SATA because of broken PCI, True. > no MMC because of FPGA bugs (now fixed), Work-arounded ;-) (hopefully really fixed in near future). > no CF card because of (?). CF usability depends on the card. Most of the old cards Just Work (TM). New cards tend to have some

Re: vexpress and 11.08

2011-09-26 Thread Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 15:04 +0100, Pawel Moll wrote: > > > > Specifically, MMC and SATA media are unreliable and the best solution is > > > > to try USB. > > BTW, what do you mean by "SATA media" here? > > PCI Express doesn't work (broken test chip, not the motherboard itself), > so you can't use

Re: vexpress and 11.08

2011-09-26 Thread Pawel Moll
> > > Specifically, MMC and SATA media are unreliable and the best solution is > > > to try USB. BTW, what do you mean by "SATA media" here? PCI Express doesn't work (broken test chip, not the motherboard itself), so you can't use PCI SATA Host Controller and there is no HC on the motherboard :-)

Re: vexpress and 11.08

2011-09-26 Thread Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 14:28 +0100, Pawel Moll wrote: > > Specifically, MMC and SATA media are unreliable and the best solution is > > to try USB. > > With the latest official firmware (and IO FPGA) from the VE CD 3.0: > > https://silver.arm.com/browse/VE030 > > MMC with the default card clock of

Re: vexpress and 11.08

2011-09-26 Thread Pawel Moll
> I've heard that due to bugs all high bandwidth devices are flakey. They are getting better and better though :-) > Specifically, MMC and SATA media are unreliable and the best solution is > to try USB. With the latest official firmware (and IO FPGA) from the VE CD 3.0: https://silver.arm.com/

Re: vexpress and 11.08

2011-09-26 Thread Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 13:28 +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote: > Hi > > On 26 September 2011 13:19, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) > wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 11:44 +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote: > >> I've tried to use Linaro 11.08 nano image with vexpress 11.08 hwpack > >> but the board hangs in the init

Re: vexpress and 11.08

2011-09-26 Thread Vincent Guittot
Hi On 26 September 2011 13:19, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote: > On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 11:44 +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote: >> I've tried to use Linaro 11.08 nano image with vexpress 11.08 hwpack >> but the board hangs in the init script and I never get the shell >> prompt. > > I've used the pre-built

Re: vexpress and 11.08

2011-09-26 Thread Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 11:44 +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote: > I've tried to use Linaro 11.08 nano image with vexpress 11.08 hwpack > but the board hangs in the init script and I never get the shell > prompt. I've used the pre-built 11.08 nano image [1] without problem. (Kernel booting from NOR, no i

vexpress and 11.08

2011-09-26 Thread Vincent Guittot
Hi, I've tried to use Linaro 11.08 nano image with vexpress 11.08 hwpack but the board hangs in the init script and I never get the shell prompt. if I use the linaro 11.07 nano image with the 11.08 hwpack, the vexpress board boot successfully. Did someone else face the same problem ? Regards, Vi