Someone I know is after an ARM 64 bit development board, and pointed me at this. I'd never heard of it :-(
http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5422#ov
Has anyone tried it?
It's based on the APM X-Gene1, so in theory should work the same as the APM Mustang.
Rich.
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjones@redhat.com wrote:
Someone I know is after an ARM 64 bit development board, and pointed me at this. I'd never heard of it :-(
I've heard of it, wasn't aware it was actually shipping yet.
http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5422#ov
Has anyone tried it?
It's based on the APM X-Gene1, so in theory should work the same as the APM Mustang.
Assuming they have a uEFI firmware that is remotely sane it should be fine. I couldn't see on any details of firmware on the site with a quick look.
Peter
Hi,
On 09-11-15 15:22, Peter Robinson wrote:
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjones@redhat.com wrote:
Someone I know is after an ARM 64 bit development board, and pointed me at this. I'd never heard of it :-(
I've heard of it, wasn't aware it was actually shipping yet.
http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5422#ov
Has anyone tried it?
It's based on the APM X-Gene1, so in theory should work the same as the APM Mustang.
Assuming they have a uEFI firmware that is remotely sane it should be fine. I couldn't see on any details of firmware on the site with a quick look.
According to the interwebs:
https://community.arm.com/community/arm-partner-directory/partner-rambus/blo...
It is Server Base Root Requirement compatible, so yes it should have uEFI.
Regards,
Hans
On 11/09/2015 03:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Someone I know is after an ARM 64 bit development board, and pointed me at this. I'd never heard of it :-(
http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5422#ov
Has anyone tried it?
I downloaded the firmware update. It contains U-Boot and a custom Linux kernel (without sources). An UEFI update is not included, as far as I can tell. I suspect the firmware does not support UEFI as-is, and it is expected that you boot a UEFI implementation through U-Boot. The release notes contain some references to TianoCore, but I couldn't find any actual code matching that in the firmware update.
Florian
On 11/30/2015 06:04 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
On 11/09/2015 03:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Someone I know is after an ARM 64 bit development board, and pointed me at this. I'd never heard of it :-(
http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5422#ov
Has anyone tried it?
I downloaded the firmware update. It contains U-Boot and a custom Linux kernel (without sources). An UEFI update is not included, as far as I can tell. I suspect the firmware does not support UEFI as-is, and it is expected that you boot a UEFI implementation through U-Boot. The release notes contain some references to TianoCore, but I couldn't find any actual code matching that in the firmware update.
An updated version of the board is coming, with UEFI provided.
Jon.
On 11/30/2015 02:03 PM, Jon Masters wrote:
On 11/30/2015 06:04 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
On 11/09/2015 03:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Someone I know is after an ARM 64 bit development board, and pointed me at this. I'd never heard of it :-(
http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5422#ov
Has anyone tried it?
I downloaded the firmware update. It contains U-Boot and a custom Linux kernel (without sources). An UEFI update is not included, as far as I can tell. I suspect the firmware does not support UEFI as-is, and it is expected that you boot a UEFI implementation through U-Boot. The release notes contain some references to TianoCore, but I couldn't find any actual code matching that in the firmware update.
An updated version of the board is coming, with UEFI provided.
I have pinged the vendor concerned and received a confirmation of the above, but I don't know if I can share the specifics here yet.
Jon.
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