[Automated-testing] [Some] Progress on net boot for Minnowboard

[Darren Hart]

On 5/8/14, 12:35, "William Mills" <wmills at ti.com> wrote:

>What does *NOT* work:
>1) Grub "linux minnow01/vmlinuz" command
>  * Transfers 50 1K blocks and then stops ACKing
>  * TFTP server continues to retransmit block 51 w/o ACK
>  * After 15ish seconds Grub declares tiemout
>    * Grub sends error packet to TFTP server
>    * Grub exits command w/ error timeout message
>  * Tried different paths, w/ & w./o (tftp) prefix etc
>  * I tried sending a different (non-kernel) file
>    * Grub gets 50 blocks and then immediately send tftp close
>    * Grub exists w/ "bad magic value" message
>
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>
>
>#1 Above may be something I am doing wrong yet.
>However it may also be a bug in the firmware.
>The "linux" command apparently does some processing in a stream fashion.
>It appears to read 50K and the pause to look at the data.
>There may be a bug related to packet rx during this pause.
>Or I could be completely over thinking the problem.

Would you be willing to file a bug on the yocto project bugzilla?

New->Yocto Project Components:
Product: Firmware
Component: minnowboard-uefi-firmware

Thanks,

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Darren Hart					Open Source Technology Center
darren.hart at intel.com				            Intel Corporation