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

[Bodke, Kishore K]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ben Warren [mailto:Ben.Warren at spidercloud.com]
>Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 2:31 PM
>To: Bodke, Kishore K
>Cc: Zanussi, Tom; meta-intel at yoctoproject.org
>Subject: Re: [meta-intel] Crystalforest: cores not responding and ethernet not
>found
>
>
>On Jan 18, 2013, at 1:52 PM, "Bodke, Kishore K" <kishore.k.bodke at intel.com>
>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>> -----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
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 18, 2013, at 10:12 AM, "Bodke, Kishore K"
>>> <kishore.k.bodke at intel.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> -----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?

UEFI boot is not enabled for Crystal Forest BSPs.
Currently we support booting from BIOS only.

Thanks
Kishore.