minnowmax 2 boots akaros and reports 4 cores

[ron minnich]

and, further, the ethernet is supported. And it can pxeboot it seems.

Sadly, it has to have a USB keyboard. If we really want it we can pull in the Plan 9 usb drivers, which are dead simple.

But there is an easy fix. 

If we have the network configure automagically on boot, we can start a listen1 for /bin/ash, and then it's just a matter of telnet'ing. Security, well, no, but you can't have it all yet.

Minnoxmax 2, once you get rid of that EFI nonsense and put on coreboot, is not a bad board at all :-)

ron

[Barret Rhoden]

On 2015-10-29 at 15:25 ron minnich <rmin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> and, further, the ethernet is supported. And it can pxeboot it seems.

Does it support the virtualization instructions you need?

> Sadly, it has to have a USB keyboard. If we really want it we can
> pull in the Plan 9 usb drivers, which are dead simple.

Aww, no legacy USB support in the BIOS? Not a big deal though. Also,
does it support serial in/out? If we can get that working out of the
box, we'd be set, and then could do the listen1 / autoconfig stuff
(like we did with your Giraffe Tower of AMDs).

Barret

[ron minnich]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 10:34 AM Barret Rhoden <br...@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

On 2015-10-29 at 15:25 ron minnich <rmin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> and, further, the ethernet is supported. And it can pxeboot it seems.

Does it support the virtualization instructions you need?

no. Too bad.

 

> Sadly, it has to have a USB keyboard. If we really want it we can
> pull in the Plan 9 usb drivers, which are dead simple.

Aww, no legacy USB support in the BIOS? 

This is coreboot, we don't do Evil very well :-)

 

Not a big deal though.  Also,
does it support serial in/out? 

You're a very demanding person. At least according to the Vendor.

http://www.minnowboard.org/meet-minnowboard-max/

somehow, serial is "special", and not default. After all, who can afford the tremendous gate cost of a UART when you only have a few beeelyun transistors to work with?

Gee, wonder why these boards keep not being as popular as ARM boards? They cost 4x more, they don't have serial, and they come with an EFI that's damn near impossible to boot anything with. Could that be it? yeah. That could be it. 

This is actually a REALLY nice board, I wish they'd make a few more tweaks to make them usable without having to reflash them and get out the old Soldering Iron.

ron 

[Davide Libenzi]

Yeah, you need Xeon E5 to get APICv AFAICS.

This is not mini pc material. You need to go into beefy desktop territory to get that.

Or, we could design our own mini PC with the E5 😀

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[Barret Rhoden]

On 2015-10-29 at 12:48 "'Davide Libenzi' via Akaros"

<aka...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Yeah, you need Xeon E5 to get APICv AFAICS.
> This is not mini pc material. You need to go into beefy desktop
> territory to get that.
> Or, we could design our own mini PC with the E5 😀

Sounds fun!

[Dan Cross]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 3:48 PM, 'Davide Libenzi' via Akaros <aka...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Yeah, you need Xeon E5 to get APICv AFAICS.

This is not mini pc material. You need to go into beefy desktop territory to get that.

Or, we could design our own mini PC with the E5 😀

That actually seems pretty reasonable. I mean, we're not designing it in the sense of doing a board layout, but assembling constituent components and putting it in a small desk side case, right?

        - Dan C.

[ron minnich]

I don't know, I saw david looking at CAD tools I thought ...

:-)

ron

[Davide Libenzi]

I tried to build something out of newegg parts with E5 26xx (~$250) and micro ATX boards, but when you done with it, you hit the $800+ mark.

And it's not exactly "mini" ☺

At that point it might be better an off the shelf tower, like this:

http://www.madepc.com/Lenovo-Thinkstation-E5-2609-2-5GHz-4354C7U/dp/B00ZPZADMU?gclid=CjwKEAjwzdGxBRC3rPWZq83FzyUSJAB9IC5iZDKgpvNuQ04lyttIXQpOq7APN0Gn8PlWtnfpGBm6ihoCCt7w_wcB

[ron minnich]

Thanks for the link! we can try this next week.

ron