[Macchiato] ODP: Fwd: SAS/SATA card issues

[Steve McIntyre]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 10:15:21AM +0000, rattusrattus at debian.org wrote:
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>> What kernel revision and firmware (u-boot/uefi) are you using?
>
>Many thanks for responding so fast.
>
>I am rapidly reaching the limits of my knowledge base here.  Please
>forgive me if I have gone down the wrong path.  Here goes...
>
>So I guess UEFI version is 18.09.2
>
>WRT uboot - I don't see any specific uboot messages.
>Is reporting as BootROM 2.03 or IOROM 1.07?  I suspect that is somthing
>else entirely?  I am assuming from your question that uboot is being
>used as an initial boot loader after the 'on die' boot loader to chain
>into Tianocore, but if that were the case I would have expected to see
>uboot message (and an option to break into the uboot monitor shell).
>Sorry I don't even know if uboot is part of the boot loader chain.

No, you're going straight into UEFI, no U-Boot involved at all.

>I believe that the firmware was rolled by Leif (Steve please jump in if
>I am incorrect).  I assume that version numbers are valid and meaningful
>but do not know if there are any significant deltas I should be
>informing you about i.e. compile options, device tree differences,
>patches applied etc?

The UEFI build you have is one that a number of Arm folks are using -
18.09.2 with patches to initialise graphics too.

>kernel is 4.19.0-1-arm64 -  Debian stock as reported by uname
>[4.19.0-1-arm64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.12-1 (2018-12-22) aarch64]
>Again am I reporting the correct information?

That's correct.

>The following was taken from the serial logs as the unit booted, and
>that is where I gleamed the UEFI and possible uboot versions from
>(massively cut down but these are the only lines that appear to relevant:
>
>	BootROM - 2.03
>	CP-1 IOROM 1.07
>	mv_ddr: mv_ddr-armada-18.09.2-g99d7725 (Oct 11 2018 - 13:00:29)
>
>	Tianocore/EDK2 firmware version MARVELL UEFI 18.09.2
>	
>	GNU GRUB  version 2.02+dfsg1-8

Nod. Same on my system.

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