| 12:27 | Nephirus | hi, is it possible to boot clearfog from one of the top miniPCI-e slots reconfigured as mSATA? |
| 12:33 | Nephirus | unrestricted version of a38x functional specs unfortunately does not provide any details |
| 12:39 | Artox | Nephirus: I would guess its a hen-and-egg problem. you would need the bootloader somewhere else, say emmc; and then have u-boot treat these ports as msata |
| 12:45 | Nephirus | Artox: boot rom should be able to boot from m.2 sata, so my guess is it should be able to boot from different serdes lane somehow |
| 12:45 | Nephirus | i just can't find any documentation |
| 12:47 | Artox | m.2 yes |
| 12:48 | Artox | but the pcie ports, I really dont know. someone would have to enquire marvell for the bootrom docs. They dont seem to like publishing these |
| 13:00 | Nephirus | ah, a38x som integration guide has a bootrom configuration table, serdes lane 0 or 1 sata only, so m.2 only it is :( |
| 13:00 | jnettlet | Nephirus, what are you trying to do? Sorry my IRC bouncer got detached from Freenode |
| 13:01 | Nephirus | jnettlet: i was figuring out if i can boot from top miniPCIe/mSATA slots on clearfog |
| 13:02 | jnettlet | oh, then you are correct. Only m.2 SSD |
| 13:03 | jnettlet | of course you can boot from sdhc/emmc and then use a root fs from the other msata slots |
| 13:03 | Nephirus | yes, but i'm trying to avoid sdcard entirely due to reliability reasons |
| 13:04 | jnettlet | then you can order a som with spi for u-boot and then switch to ssd |
| 13:05 | jnettlet | although if you buy high end sdhc cards they are quite reliable at this point. |
| 13:05 | Nephirus | jnettlet: is there a minimum ordering quantity on a38x module with emmc and/or spi flash version? |
| 13:05 | Nephirus | jnettlet: problem is with the slot contacts, they tend to cause problems sometimes |
| 13:06 | jnettlet | I will check, but I don't believe so. It probably would just be queued until we had enough to fulfill an order. Really it would be quicker to email [email protected] for specifics |
| 13:06 | Nephirus | ok, thanks |
| 13:06 | jnettlet | usually we have emmc variants available. SPI less |
| 13:07 | jnettlet | or m.2 ssd, which are quite cheap at this point |
| 13:09 | jnettlet | you can get a m.2 ssd 32GB for about 25 euro...but it scales. bump that up to 128GB for less than 50 euro |
| 13:09 | jnettlet | which is cheaper than sdhc. |
| 13:10 | Nephirus | yup, but i really need only about 200 MB for whole system |
| 13:14 | jnettlet | I would contact sales and get pricing availibility on our eMMC. eMMC minimum is 4GB, SPI is only 32MB |
| 13:17 | Nephirus | i'm thinking about some external spi nand flash |
| 13:20 | jnettlet | always an option |
| 13:21 | jnettlet | although because of the price scaling you will probably not get a better price than we have on 4GB, and actually the larger the flash the more longevity you will get |
| 13:21 | jnettlet | your reads/writes will have more empty cells to be spread over |
| 13:22 | jnettlet | definitely email sales and see what we can do. |
| 13:25 | Nephirus | well, emmc variant seems to be the easiest way, so sales email it is :) |
| 13:25 | Nephirus | jnettlet: thanks for the info |
| 13:26 | jnettlet | great. |
| 22:24 | delete | I am trying to build some packages on obs.solid-build.xyz |
| 22:25 | delete | but the builds are broken for me |
| 22:25 | delete | No live log available: remote error: cubox-i_hb-uenv no logfile |