[meta-intel] Crystalforest: cores not responding and ethernet not found

[Bodke, Kishore K]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Zanussi, Tom
>Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 10:18 PM
>To: Ben Warren
>Cc: meta-intel at yoctoproject.org; Bodke, Kishore K; Saxena, Rahul
>Subject: Re: [meta-intel] Crystalforest: cores not responding and ethernet not
>found
>
>On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 21:42 -0800, Ben Warren wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Judging by the crickets, I'm guessing this isn't the appropriate forum for my
>questions?
>>
>
>It should be, but you should also cc: the maintainer of the
>crystalforest BSP (I've added him to the cc of this reply - you can find
>maintainers for a given BSP in the meta-intel/MAINTAINERS file).
>
>> I'd sure like to know if the CrystalForest BSP is supposed to support the
>standard peripherals on this chipset.  Any pointers or suggestions for other
>mailing lists would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>
>It looks like it should.  Looking at the crystalforest config:
>
>http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/linux-yocto-
>3.4/tree/meta/cfg/kernel-cache/bsp/crystalforest/crystalforest.scc?h=meta
>
>I see both the ixgbe and igb features included:
>
>include features/ixgbe/ixgbe.scc
>include features/igb/igb.scc
>
>Not sure which you need.
>
>If you do an lsmod you can see if the module you need is loaded, and if
>not, try 'modprobe ixgbe' to get it loaded.

Crystal Forest Gladden platform which I tested does not have any on-board 
Ethernet.
It has an One Acre Qaud PHY Module external card and uses igb module.
We have enabled both igb and ixgbe modules and tested both of them.
It works fine here.
For ixgbe we have tested only with 82599 Niantic Card.

Which Ethernet card are you using?
Does the igb or ixgbe modules support the Ethernet card you are using?
If it is newer Ethernet card, you might want to build the supported igb/ixgbe
drivers and reload them.

Thanks
Kishore.

>
>Thanks,
>
>Tom
>
>
>> thanks,
>> Ben
>>
>> On Jan 15, 2013, at 11:40 PM, Ben Warren <Ben.Warren at spidercloud.com>
>wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm new to both yocto and embedded x86, so apologize in advance if I get
>some terminology wrong.
>> >
>> > We have a new board based on the crystal forest/gladden chipset (E3-
>1125C @ 2GHz).  I've built the meta-crystalforest BSP (danny version) and am
>trying to get it to boot from a thumb drive.
>> >
>> > Occasionally (maybe 1 in 10 times) this will boot all the way to the login
>prompt, but more often I see this, where at most 2 cores come up:
>> >
>> > ===
>> > CPU0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU  @ 2.00GHz stepping 07
>> > Performance Events: PEBS fmt1+, 16-deep LBR, SandyBridge events, Intel
>PMU driver.
>> > PEBS disabled due to CPU errata.
>> > ... version:                3
>> > ... bit width:              48
>> > ... generic registers:      4
>> > ... value mask:             0000ffffffffffff
>> > ... max period:             000000007fffffff
>> > ... fixed-purpose events:   3
>> > ... event mask:             000000070000000f
>> > Booting Node   0, Processors  #1
>> > CPU1: Not responding.
>> > #2
>> > CPU2: Not responding.
>> > #3
>> > CPU3: Not responding.
>> > #4 #5
>> > CPU5: Not responding.
>> > #6
>> > CPU6: Not responding.
>> > #7 Ok.
>> > CPU7: Not responding.
>> > Brought up 2 CPUs
>> > ===
>> >
>> > and then it hangs here:
>> >
>> > ===
>> > ALSA device list:
>> >  No soundcards found.
>> > ===
>> >
>> > With this BSP build, no Ethernet controllers are ever found.
>> >
>> > If I boot Fedora core 14, I see similar issues with non-responding cores, but
>two ixge 10GbE controllers are found.
>> >
>> > This board uses an AMI BIOS.  It seems a bit better with power
>management disabled in BIOS, and I've tried several different ACPI settings.
>> >
>> > Does anybody have insight as to what is going on?  Should I be focusing on
>BIOS/UEFI?  We've verified all Ethernet controllers using UEFI applications,
>and at least one of the 10/100/1000 controllers should have link up, so it's
>surprising to see nothing found by Linux.
>> >
>> > thanks,
>> > Ben
>>
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