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Firmware / Re: Idenitfy versions of firmwares

« Last post by mparnaudeau on October 20, 2024, 04:57:50 pm »

When I tried to update PNOR firmware to V2.00, copying the binary file, I got this error:

$ scp ./talos-ii-v2.00.pnor root@$TALOS_BMC_ADDR:/tmp/
root@192.168.1.xx's password:
sh: /usr/libexec/sftp-server: No such file or directory
scp: Connection closed

Have you already met that?

I don't know what happens ... There is something weird with my config. I don't know what to do.

I looked at the system and its storage organization and capacity:

root@talos:~# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
dev                     175.9M         0    175.9M   0% /dev
tmpfs                   209.2M     22.8M    186.4M  11% /run
/dev/mtdblock4           19.5M     19.5M         0 100% /run/initramfs/ro
/dev/mtdblock5            4.0M      3.1M    900.0K  78% /run/initramfs/rw

Is it normal to have /dev/mtdblock4 full at 100%?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Problems with new Kernels on Debian 12

« Last post by MauryG5 on October 20, 2024, 03:29:07 pm »

Guys I redid the correct installation of Debian 12, at the time I had made a mistake because I had put a repository that had brought Debian from 11 to 12 but had not updated the repositories and I had not therefore noticed this lack and in fact Debian broke at a certain point. I had returned to 11, I used it until yesterday but today I wanted to do the correct procedure to update to 12. Well after having done everything and also installed the repositories correctly, modifying the file /etc/apt/source.list, I tried to compile the latest kernel 6.11.4 but unfortunately it does not work. Even those that I had previously compiled and installed for Debian 11 such as 6.10.1 or 6.11.2 do not work and then I understood that there is something that does not work in Debian 12 for the new Kernels. The only one that works is its 6.1.32. Do you have any idea what is missing and what needs to be changed to make Debian 12 work properly with the latest Kernels? Could it be that I am missing the backport repository in the list and that is why I cannot install new Kernels? As long as I used Debian 11 there were no problems and all the latest Kernels always worked, I don't understand...

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General Hardware Discussion / Re: Libre SOC, uh

« Last post by Borley on October 09, 2024, 07:48:52 pm »

NLnet pulled their funding for LibreSoC earlier this year with a statement vaguely suggesting that the future of LibreSoC wasn't clear. When you explore the project's web page, it becomes abundantly clear as to why.

It really bums me out too that the project was initially started to address the lack of fully free GPUs. Then later shifted focus to a low power generic SoC, and now this. We are badly in need of a "Raptor Computing Systems" of the GPU space.

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Applications and Porting / Lynis audit

« Last post by Borley on October 09, 2024, 07:43:12 pm »

For a long time, I had simply thought there were just regressions in Lynis. But digging further down revealed some test modules have hard coded paths for specific CPU architectures (ARM and x86, the usual). In retrospect, those modules did start failing right around the time I switched to powerpc...

Adding:

Code: [Select]

${ROOTDIR}lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/security

to Lynis' include/tests_authentication restores working detection for the presence of password strength checkers. I've gone ahead and opened a request at their git.

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General Hardware Discussion / Libre SOC, uh

« Last post by Hasturtium on October 09, 2024, 10:19:14 am »

https://lists.libre-soc.org/pipermail/libre-soc-dev/

I wondered what happened with what appeared to be a promising project, and holy cow.

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Firmware / Re: Idenitfy versions of firmwares

« Last post by mparnaudeau on October 07, 2024, 04:46:12 am »

Analyzing several archives, it appears that these versions reported by lsmcode match with the PNOR firmware V1.05 (from System Package 1.06).

In the OpenBMC shell, dmesg starts with:

Linux version 5.0.7-a8a208fa7346ad643e8f6100c49cb7b8468b6d38 (oe-user@oe-host) (gcc version 8.3.0 (GCC)) #1 Fri Jul 19 13:24:42 UTC 2019

It seems that refers to BMC V2.00, as in its package, I can see:

U-Boot fitImage for Phosphor OpenBMC (Phosphor OpenBMC Project Reference Distro)/5.0.7+gitAUTOINC+a8a208fa73/talos

That seems to be strange because reading again and again several release notes, I understand that BMC V2.xx don't work with PNOR V1.xx ...

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General CPU Discussion / Re: 3U HSF End of Life'd

« Last post by Hasturtium on October 05, 2024, 09:07:43 pm »

The "talk is cheap" thing they've got going is kind of nice, until it's not any more. Maintaining a joyful anticipation for Talos III/Blackbird II/S1 systems with no news whatsoever for more than 11 months (with the announced release date ending in less than two months) is probably not something people are going to do.

Not even on their Txitter? I haven't been able to check ever since the API got closed off for frontends like nitter.

Knock on wood, but xcancel.com still works for me in a pinch. Their dead bird site account has not updated since May 16th of this year, when they retweeted something from OpenPower. Prior to that their last update was in February announcing the new BMC firmware, which I have foolishly still not gotten around to installing yet.

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General CPU Discussion / Re: 3U HSF End of Life'd

« Last post by lepidotos on October 05, 2024, 12:35:56 am »

Nope, that seems to be where the April date comes from, though they did retweet something posted in May.

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General CPU Discussion / Re: 3U HSF End of Life'd

« Last post by Borley on October 04, 2024, 11:41:45 pm »

The "talk is cheap" thing they've got going is kind of nice, until it's not any more. Maintaining a joyful anticipation for Talos III/Blackbird II/S1 systems with no news whatsoever for more than 11 months (with the announced release date ending in less than two months) is probably not something people are going to do.

Not even on their Txitter? I haven't been able to check ever since the API got closed off for frontends like nitter.

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General CPU Discussion / Re: 3U HSF End of Life'd

« Last post by lepidotos on October 04, 2024, 09:51:52 pm »

It seems SoSi's last LinkedIn post was only three months ago so I don't quite have alarm bells ringing just yet, but it would be nice to at least get like a photo of a prototype board or screenshot or something. We know they're working on it and they've released more information than that like it's compatible with at least one major heatsink format (I'm guessing SF2).