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Ricardo Salveti de Araujo edited this page Dec 18, 2015 · 38 revisions

Reference Software Platform Enterprise Edition

Boot Firmware

The UEFI/EDK2 guide for EE provides information about building and flashing the boot firmware for the supported boards.

Reference Kernel

TODO (once we have our reference kernel for EE)

Quick Start

AMD Overdrive

Since the EDK2 based firmware is not yet supported (work in progress), the original AMI BIOS based firmware from AMD is required.

At the time of 15.12 release the latest firmware version for Overdrive (B0) is 0.0.8.5.

Only B0 is supported by the 15.12 release.

After flashing/updating the firmware, proceed to the network installer instructions in order to install your favorite distribution. No special setup is required for Overdrive.

Flashing the firmware

Follow the instructions available as part of the UEFI EDK2 Guide in order to flash your AMD Overdrive. The tested flashing process requires DediProg SF100, but a board like the SPI Hook should also be compatible with it (not yet tested).

HiSilicon D02

UEFI/EDK2 is supported by D02 (with build from source instructions available as part of the UEFI EDK2 Guide), and since ACPI support is new, please make sure you are using the latest firmware available at https://builds.96boards.org/snapshots/reference-platform/components/uefi/latest/release/d02/ before proceeding with kernel testing or installing your favorite distribution (and please make sure to report your firmware version when reporting issues and bugs).

Flashing the firmware

Follow the instructions available as part of the UEFI EDK2 Guide in order to flash your D02. The tested flashing process only requires access to a TFTP server, since the firmware supports fetching the firmware from the network.

Network Installers

In order to install a distribution from network, PXE (DCHP/TFTP) booting is required. Since we require UEFI for for the Enterprise Edition, the setup is usually easier since all you need is to load GRUB 2 (and its configuration). Check this link for instructions on how to quickly setup your own PXE server (using dnsmasq).

Install instructions for the tested/supported distributions:

Components

OpenStack

Hadoop

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