Bug 6305

Summary:	Minnowboard UEFI Firmware 1.0 Documentation is confusing
Product:	[Hardware Platforms] MinnowBoard MAX Firmware	Reporter:	Bill Mills <wmills>
Component:	minnowboard-uefi-firmware	Assignee:	chao zhang <chao.b.zhang>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium	CC:	scott.a.garman, sjolley.yp.pm, warthog9, wmills
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	Production Release
Hardware:	MinnowBoard
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Yes (doc changes required)

Description Bill Mills 2014-05-09 20:50:37 UTC

The release notes for V1.0 say that netbooting:
* Is a validated feature
-- AND --
* It is a know issue that IPv4 & IPV6 boot does not work.

It should be one or the other or at least have a lot of detail.

Also:

The firmware upgrade docuements lead you to belive that using FirmwareUpgrade -f does not wipe out the MAC address.  (I think it says that explictly.)

I did not find this to be true, at least when upgrading from an older version of Firmware.
FirmwareUpgrade -m _does_ fix it.
(The board has a stciker with the mac address, so it is not lost.)

Comment 1 chao zhang 2014-06-20 02:13:13 UTC

For network boot, do you mean PXE boot?

Comment 2 Bill Mills 2014-08-04 17:41:50 UTC

Yes, the release notes refer to this as "Ethernet (PXE)", "PXE IPV4" and "PXE IPV6".

What I mean is any boot that uses BOOTP or DHCP + TFTP to get Grub and kernel etc.  Most x86 users refer to this as PXE even if none of the PXE specific protocols are being used.

The PXE specific protocols are:
1) a BIOS specific set of runtime services that are not used in UEFI.
2) DHCP extensions that allows the boot server to be distint from the DHCP server
[many common installations do not seperate the DHCP and Boot servers.]
3) DHCP extensions that better identify the end equipment to the DHCP or Boot server.

I wrote this mostly as input so the MinnowMax release notes could be better.

Comment 3 chao zhang 2014-08-05 00:49:21 UTC

Please update Minnow firmware to V1.10. PXE boot with IPv4/v6 stack is verfied OK

Comment 4 chao zhang 2014-08-05 00:49:51 UTC

Please update Minnow firmware to V1.10. PXE boot with IPv4/v6 stack is verfied OK

Comment 5 John 'Warthog9' Hawley 2015-01-26 22:27:24 UTC

MinnowBoard v1 has reached new feature EOL, FW development is done as are new hardware features.  If you feel EXCEEDINGLY strongly about an issue please re-open it for discussion but be aware that we are recommending individuals migrate to the MAX platform.