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Espressobin & Marvel 88SE9215 Controller Card


Udo Waechter

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Hi there,

 

as already discussed here, 

https://forum.armbian.com/topic/5318-looking-for-an-enclosure-for-espressobin/?do=findComment&comment=49396

 

it seems that this 4-sata mini pci express card is supposed to be supported by armbian. 

As I wrote in that post, it doesn't work for me. 

I've tried Armbian default and next.

 

The cards work, since I got them running with espressobin's Ubuntu distribution.

Also, I've compiled a 4.4.52 Kernel according to:

http://wiki.espressobin.net/tiki-index.php?page=Build+From+Source+-+Kernel

 

It also works just fine with Armbian. 

So, my guess is that there's something different in the kernel config provided by linux-marvel and armbian when it comes to this chipset.

For reference, I've attached the screen output from a boot with the sata card.

 

I can not seem to find the kernel-config in the armbian-buildroot. Where do I find that? 

I've already set *KERNEL_KEEP_CONFIG="yes"* in default-config.conf

 

Any help is aprreciated.

 

Cheers!

udo,

 

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25 minutes ago, Igor said:

 

You need latest which is 2017.03-armada-17.10 https://dl.armbian.com/espressobin/u-boot/

Thanks for that.

 

Unfortunatly something is fishy now, and the machine is bricked :(

 

i took the 1g-1200_750  - which might have been too much. Time to find out how to unbrick it... Any hints? 

 

TIM-1.0
WTMI-armada-17.10.1-4809244
ENTER init_ddrgen
DDR_TOPOLOGY is 2 :     DDR3, 2CS 512M + 512M
WTMI_CLOCK=3

Fill memory before self refresh...done

Fill memory before self refresh...done

Now in Self-refresh Mode
Restore CAS Read and Write Latency
Restore termination values to original values
Exited self-refresh ...

DLL TUNING
==============
   DLL 0xc0001050[21:16]: [1,26,13]
   DLL 0xc0001050[29:24]: [f,34,21]
   DLL 0xc0001054[21:16]: [4,25,14]
   DLL 0xc0001054[29:24]: [e,2f,1e]
   DLL 0xc0001074[21:16]: [0,3f,1f]
   DLL 0xc0001074[29:24]: [0,3f,1f]
 DLL: pass  

 

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You should pick exactly the one you have now. There is no speed increase but you ended up this way :) Good point is that this board is unbreakable. One way to recover is this: http://wiki.espressobin.net/tiki-index.php?page=Boot+ESPRESSObin+from+SATA+drive and second option is via UART which is more complicated. 

 

When you are back, repeat flashing SPI, move jumpers back ...

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BTW: fell into the same pit and also got it working again with flash-image-1g-1cs-1000_800_boot_sd_and_usb.bin (v? from May 10th 2018).

Got mine with only one chip on the back just a few days ago shipped from Amazon/US.

 

However to You can obtain numbers from the current boot prompt., what are the appropriate commands to figure the right u-boot version for a board?

It might be helpful to mention those on the site as well ;-)

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