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

[Ben Warren]

On Jan 18, 2013, at 10:12 AM, "Bodke, Kishore K" <kishore.k.bodke at intel.com> wrote:

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> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ben Warren [mailto:Ben.Warren at spidercloud.com]
>> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 9:58 AM
>> To: Bodke, Kishore K
>> Cc: Zanussi, Tom; meta-intel at yoctoproject.org
>> Subject: Re: [meta-intel] Crystalforest: cores not responding and ethernet not
>> found
>> 
>> Hi Kishore,
>> 
>> On Jan 18, 2013, at 9:35 AM, "Bodke, Kishore K" <kishore.k.bodke at intel.com>
>> wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>> Our design has an 82599 chip for 10GbE and uses the 'Cave Creek' chipset,
>> apparently connected to the Gladden proc via PCIe x8.  The Cave Creek chip
>> has 4x 1GbE controllers (igb-compatible, I expect).
>> 
>> Maybe I misunderstand some terminology.  I was under the impression that
>> 'Crystal Forest' means 'Gladden + Cave Creek'.  Is that incorrect?
>> 
>> Thanks a lot!
> 
> Yes, Crystal Forest uses Cave Creek chipset, but does not have any on-board
> 82599 10GbE or  PCIe x8 slots.
> 
> It has 5 PCIe x4 slots and one PCIe x16 slots. 
> Not sure if the new Gladden boards has x8 slots ?
> May you could trying connecting your 82599 to one of x4 slots away from CPU.
> 
This is a single board computer, so everything's soldered on.   I'm not too concerned right now about the 10GbE, since it's not connected to anything else yet and a Fedora image does find it by probing.

Right now, I need to get the 1GbE links up.  The Cave Creek chip that we're using (8903) has a PCIe x4 uplink to the Gladden processor.  There's obviously some support for the Cave Creek chip in this yocto build, since SATA and USB controllers are being detected, but no 1GbE.

thanks again,
Ben

> Crystal Forest means both Gladden (mobile) and Server platforms.
> You could find the description of these in crystalforest-gladden.conf and
> crystalforest-server.conf files.
> 
> Thanks
> Kishore.
> 
>> 
>> --Ben
>> 
>>> 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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