Posts made by Willy Tarreau

• Dead device - No BIOS - IPMI works. -- Resolved

  Yeah that definitely sounds weird. But if you find other (read *different*) DIMMs that produce the exact same totally strange behavior, you could likely conclude that the DIMMs are not at fault and...

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  Willy Tarreau
  1/11/24, 4:49 PM
• Dead device - No BIOS - IPMI works. -- Resolved

  FWIW we bought 6 Corsair 16GB ECC DDR4-3200MT/s DIIMMs for our Altra and they didn't work (I don't remember the message nor the exact model). We had to pick some DIMMs from other servers to get som...

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  Willy Tarreau
  1/11/24, 1:28 PM
• [Help Needed] Need the Definition of DB40 connector of A2 board.

  @Rebecca Cran OK that's good to know, but I'm definitely not interested in going down that route. Signing an NDA for the sole purpose of getting a board to properly boot is a bit excessive :-) ...

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  Willy Tarreau
  12/27/23, 4:00 AM
• [Help Needed] Need the Definition of DB40 connector of A2 board.

  FWIW I've reprogrammed edk2 2.06  on the carrier board's SPI and moved JP27 to 2-3 so that I can now boot 2.06 by default. The board boots faster than with 2.09 (i.e. about less than one minut...

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  Willy Tarreau
  12/15/23, 7:07 AM
• [Help Needed] Need the Definition of DB40 connector of A2 board.

  @Rebecca Cran Thank you Rebecca. I may give it a try next week. For now I've left the legacy version on the module with MMC 2.09 that checks JP27, and EDK2 2.09 on the carrier board. It boot super ...

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  Willy Tarreau
  12/7/23, 9:39 AM
• [Help Needed] Need the Definition of DB40 connector of A2 board.

  Where did you find 2.06 ? I'm only seeing 2.04 on github and 2.09 on the download page.

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  Willy Tarreau
  12/6/23, 3:21 PM
• [Help Needed] Need the Definition of DB40 connector of A2 board.

  So as indicated in the 2.3 GHz thread, finally after another reboot the machine is again at 2.3 GHz instead of 2.6 once reverted to EDK2 2.04.100.11. So there's clearly a difference between 2.04 an...

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  Willy Tarreau
  12/6/23, 11:19 AM
• CPU frequency capped to 2.3 GHz instead of 2.6 GHz

  Well, after reverting to EDK2 2.04.100.11, finally the system is back to 2.3 GHz... Grrrr... I think I will flash 2.09 on the carrier board so that I can boot on it using JP27.

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  Willy Tarreau
  12/6/23, 11:17 AM
• CPU Replacement

  FWIW the repository is back online with updates, and the new image in the download area managed to boot and restore my machine.

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  Willy Tarreau
  12/6/23, 10:37 AM
• Unable to boot from Carrier BIOS by setting JP27-29

  Just for info, the firmware based on MMC 2.09 + EDK2 2.04.100.11 that is available in the download area now properly respects JP27 and allows to boot from the onboard flash. I reprogrammed mine and...

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  Willy Tarreau
  12/6/23, 10:33 AM
• Synchronous Exception at 0x00000000F8222CF4

  Just to inform other users that after the last update in the download area with MMC 2.09 and EDK2 2.04.100.11, I managed to flash the SPI NOR on the carrier board using an external programmer, and ...

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  Willy Tarreau
  12/6/23, 10:32 AM
• [Help Needed] Need the Definition of DB40 connector of A2 board.

  @Ruler of COM great news, I could flash the on-board SPI using my buspirate board + flashrom and moving JP27 to 2-3. Now the board boots again (and boot quite faster than it previously did). The m...

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  Willy Tarreau
  12/6/23, 9:58 AM
• [Help Needed] Need the Definition of DB40 connector of A2 board.

  @Ruler of COM thank you! I'll try it this morning and let you know how it goes. Many thanks!

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  Willy Tarreau
  12/6/23, 7:08 AM
• [Help Needed] Need the Definition of DB40 connector of A2 board.

  Thank you!

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  Willy Tarreau
  12/4/23, 6:01 PM
• [Help Needed] Need the Definition of DB40 connector of A2 board.

  Hi @Jiaheng Wang , Thanks for sharing your experience, that's extremely useful given the instabilities of the current firmware, it allows users to try the one that works best for them without risk...

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  Willy Tarreau
  12/2/23, 9:24 AM
• Synchronous Exception at 0x00000000F8222CF4

  @Rebecca Cran yeah, when I said "not opened it yet", I meant the EEPROM socket :-)

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  Willy Tarreau
  12/1/23, 6:36 PM
• Synchronous Exception at 0x00000000F8222CF4

  @Rebecca Cran thanks for the info. We'll see, for now I don't have any DB40-to-FPC adapter. I understood that the upcoming 2.09 MMC code will support JP27-29 to allow to load EDK2 from the carrier ...

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  Willy Tarreau
  12/1/23, 4:47 PM
• Synchronous Exception at 0x00000000F8222CF4

  Just to share some updates, I could reflash the MMC from the default image ipmitool as documented somewhere else in the wiki. So my understanding is that after the next update, it will be able to l...

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  Willy Tarreau
  11/28/23, 7:48 AM
• Synchronous Exception at 0x00000000F8222CF4

  Thank you! The problem I'm facing is: how will I be supposed to flash this given that I can't get past the BIOS anymore ? I do have a buspirate board at home with the SPI adapter for SOP-8, and hav...

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  Willy Tarreau
  11/28/23, 7:14 AM
• CPU frequency capped to 2.3 GHz instead of 2.6 GHz

  @Willy Tarreau responding to myself, it's indicated in this thread that the firmware images have been removed (!):  https://www.ipi.wiki/community/forum/topic/119680/edk2-github-repo-disappear...

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  Willy Tarreau
  11/27/23, 7:32 PM