PCENGINES APU[1-6] Coreboot SeaBIOS Open Source Firmware

[ruffy91]

Is 4.10 a new branch or just a version increase to 4.9.x?

[tillsense]

Hi all,

yes. 4.10 in versioning stands for changing to coreboot release 4.10 itself.

https://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2019/07/22/announcing-coreboot-4-10/

cheers
till

[Kingrat]

Anyone else having stability issues/crashing since the clock boosting was added? I have tried 4.9.0.2 and a couple of versions inbetween as well as 4.10.0.0, all releases have been unstable for me past 4.9.0.1 since the added cpu boost. I have removed all the tunables I had in /boot/loader.conf.local from before, it seems to give me a CAM status: Command timeout message in dmesg before becoming completely unresponsive. I had tunables in place before that which were required in the past to install older versions of opnsense for ahci issues which have since been fixed. I have the KingFast 16GB msata in mine. It seems to run between 6-12 hours between lockups on average, sometimes a couple of hours sometimes a day.

[tillsense]

Hi kingrat,

have no stability problems on different models. If you have been testing them for so long, you should report them to the developers.

https://github.com/pcengines


cheers
till

[Gary7]

Just a thought.
Do you have the CPU thermal sensors enabled ?
Are you using PowerD and what Power Mode setting ?
What temperature are you running in Reporting -> Health -> System -> Cputemp  ?

With the CPU Performance Boost enabled, you might be running a little hotter.
Could you be hitting thermal shutdown ?

I have an APU2D4 and, as an experiment, I've done some extra things to keep the CPU as cool as possible, short of putting it in front of a fan. It's my home firewall, so I'll admit that it's lightly loaded.

[Kingrat]

Looking at my config it looks like I did have powerd enabled with hadp which seems to be problematic historically.

Temp idles around 56c with or without core boost.

I currently restored my config in to a VM so I can troubleshoot the hardware. I reloaded from scratch and I am currently running 4 processes of openssl speed in a loop to load up all cores to 100%, temp is sitting around  59c with 400% load. I updated it from console but have not restored my config on to it.

So far so good but I am going to bake it for a day or two and see if it fails. I have a console connection hooked up now so hopefully I get something if it does crash again. I will try and enable powerd again on it and see if that causes it to hang to confirm if that is the issue.

[chemlud]

Hello!

I'm having a look at coreboot from time to time as I look for a stable solution for a remote (!) system without BIOS from Intel/AMD (although management engine and alike still present...).

Which hardware/coreboot version would be suitable for a 100/100 MBit fiber connection to run suricata on 2-3 interfaces (no wifi required)?

Many thanks in advance!

[tillsense]

Hi chemlud,

there is currently very little hardware with coreboot as firmware, so I started this thread to maybe trigger something here.

https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=13201.0

cheers
till

[chemlud]

Hy!

Thanks for reply! Protectli looks nice, but no shipping FROM EU, or?

Is the PC Engines hardware stable with coreboot and OPNsense for remote installs? :-)

Thanks in advance

[tillsense]

Hi chemlud,

also these questions would be solvable with a forum search

cheers
till

[miroco]

The most recent BIOS versions for the APU1 trough APU5 platforms are out.

v4.10.0.1/v4.0.28

https://pcengines.github.io

[tillsense]

Hi all,

v4.10.0.2 is available...https://pcengines.github.io/#mr-27

cheers
till

[tillsense]

Hi all,

v4.10.0.3 is published.

https://pcengines.github.io/firmware/2019/11/08/PC-Engines-Firmware-v4-10-0-3.html

cheers
till

[dave]

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[Northguy]

Removed the response. Since Dave decided to remove his question, my answer to his question is no longer relevant.