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

[Ben Warren]

On Jan 18, 2013, at 1:52 PM, "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 11:19 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
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>> 
>> 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.
> 
> Can you try with the release image we have at
> http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.3/machines/crystalforest-gladden/meta-crystalforest-gladden-danny-8.0.0.tar.bz2
> 
> I just now tested this image again to see if everything is fine.
> I have attached the log.txt with lspci detecting the Ethernet devices and lsmod loading the igb module.
> 
> Does your lspci sees the Ethernet devices?

Thanks!  I'll try this.  I need to get it in a usable state first, though :)

One more question - do you use UEFI or BIOS?

thanks,
Ben
> Thanks
> Kishore.
> <log.txt>