[MinnowBoard] MinnowBoard MAX 0.93 64-Bit & network lost

[Douglas Kryder]

Michael,
thanks for that link. i think now i was getting the wrong package although
i am sure that it was from a link on a wiki. the package i was getting was
MinnowBoard UEFI Firmware from this page,
https://firmware.intel.com/content/minnowboard-uefi-firmware-download

i think i was confused by the package titles, also not for sure if the one
i got was correct. anyway, your link
provides the .bin. i'm all set. thanks!

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Krau, Michael P <michael.p.krau at intel.com>
wrote:

> The .fd extension stands for Firmware Device, while .bin is a binary
> image.   To be honest, both files are binary format, and can be loaded
> directly into the flash part.
>
>
>
> However, when I pulled down the release x64 versions of the MinnowBoard
> MAX 0.91, 0.92, and 0.93 (along with a few other debug or 32 bit versions)
> I received the release notes, the update utility, and the image as a .bin
> file.  I pulled them down form the official download site at:
> https://firmware.intel.com/projects/minnowboard-max
>
>
>
> You may want to pull the packages again.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
>
>
>
> Michael Krau
>
>
>
> *From:* elinux-MinnowBoard [mailto:elinux-minnowboard-
> bounces at lists.elinux.org] *On Behalf Of *Douglas Kryder
> *Sent:* Friday, September 09, 2016 11:27 AM
> *To:* MinnowBoard Development and Community Discussion <
> elinux-minnowboard at lists.elinux.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [MinnowBoard] MinnowBoard MAX 0.93 64-Bit & network lost
>
>
>
> hello all, i have been following this thread from start and would like to
> test the firmware myself. i have some questions about flashing that i'm
> hoping someone can answer. both my turbot boards currently have .090
> firmware. in the past i have used a piece of hardware called SPI Hook by
> tincantools and the software "flashrom" to flash my boards. i know the
> flash utlity is available but i just enjoyed using the mentioned combo. up
> to and including firmware 0.90 the file provided had extension .bin. since
> 0.90 all the compressed packages use file with extension .fd my questions
> are 1. is the .fd file flashable with flashrom like .bin file are.?   2.
> i've read i can open .fd file in hex editor and save as .bin and flash
> that, is this possible to do without damage to board?   thanks for any
> help. also if anyone has other suggestions on flashing the current file
> from intel using flashrom i would like to hear.. thanks again. if it turns
> out there is no path to using flashrom with the .fd files i plan to use
> provided utility to flash and then join these tests. thank you.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 10:39 AM, David Scully <
> dscully at sbimagingsystems.com> wrote:
>
> Michael,
>
> "Either happens only 1 out of every n (n possibly being variable as well)
> runs, or happens in a wildly variable time frame (takes as little as 2
> seconds and as long as 12 hours) to failure, regardless of environmental
> issues."
>
> That's consistent with what I'm seeing. Sometimes its near immediately,
> other times I have to run it for ~30 minutes.
>
> "But also note #1, enabling the PCIe port 1, could this contribute to PCIe
> disconnects in the custom hardware?"
>
> Even on 0.92 firmware, I enable this port because our board uses it for the
> main Ethernet NIC.
>
> ---
>
> I tested 0.92 firmware with Spread Spectrum On and was unable to lose PCIe
> connection on the i211 on Port 1 (Port 2 in the FW).
>
> I was hoping to test 0.93 firmware where spread spectrum is off but the
> option appears to have vanished. I'm wondering if there were more changes
> in
> that two month window to the PCIe system that might have motivated turning
> it on permanently in 0.93. There aren't many commits to bisect on the edk2
> minnowboard-max-udk2015 branch, but I have no idea how much the binary
> objects have changed.
>
> I might try to build a version that reverts this commit, so I'm able to
> disable spread spectrum on 0.93 firmware:
> https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-platforms/commit/
> 110b549d870c5851991b3479785a828b3287f2a6
>
> Our board leaves PCIe 0 disconnected while 1, 2, and 3 are connected to
> separate i211 NICs. I did discover today that it appears that on 0.93 I'm
> not seeing any PCIe disconnects on port 2 (Port 3 in FW). It looks like
> it's
> pointing to some potential signal integrity issues on our board that are
> exacerbated by the PCI change in the firmware.
>
> This might not be important, but one thing I noticed in the setup screen is
> that it doesn't show a IFWI Version or BIOS Version on my board, while it
> does appear on a Minnowboard Max. Our BOM_OP[X] pins (for HW ID) are
> strapped to mimic the Turbot X205.
>
>
>
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