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ReferenceSoftwareEE
The UEFI/EDK2 guide for EE provides information about building and flashing the boot firmware for the supported boards.
The Reference Platform kernel used by the enterprise release (and soon to be shared with CE) can be found on git.linaro.org
Since we want the same kernel config to be used for all our builds and distributions, it is also available as part of the same kernel tree, and can be found at arch/arm64/configs/distro.config
At the time of the 15.12 release, the kernel is based on 4.4-rc4.
For future releases we will also have kernel config fragments for key functionality that will make it easier for other projects and distributions to consume.
The Reference Platform kernel will act as an integration point (very similar to linux-next) for various upstream-targeted features and platform-enablement code on the latest kernel. Please read the kernel policy on how this kernel will be maintained. It is not meant to be a stable kernel – the LSK is already available for that.
Since the EDK2 based firmware is not yet supported (work in progress), the original AMI BIOS based firmware from AMD is required.
At the time of the 16.03 release the latest firmware version for Overdrive (B0) is 1.0.0.1. Latest for rev A is still 0.0.7.4.
Only B0 is supported by the 15.12 release.
After flashing/updating the firmware, proceed to the network installer instructions in order to install your favorite distribution. No special setup is required for Overdrive.
Follow the instructions available as part of the UEFI EDK2 Guide in order to flash your AMD Overdrive. The tested flashing process requires DediProg SF100, but a board like the SPI Hook should also be compatible with it (not yet tested).
UEFI/EDK2 is supported by D02 (with build from source instructions available as part of the UEFI EDK2 Guide), and since ACPI support is new, please make sure you are using the latest firmware available at https://builds.96boards.org/snapshots/reference-platform/components/uefi/latest/release/d02/ before proceeding with kernel testing or installing your favorite distribution (and please make sure to report your firmware version when reporting issues and bugs).
Follow the instructions available as part of the UEFI EDK2 Guide in order to flash your D02. The tested flashing process only requires access to a TFTP server, since the firmware supports fetching the firmware from the network.
In order to install a distribution from network, PXE (DCHP/TFTP) booting is required. Since we require UEFI for the Enterprise Edition, the setup is usually easier since all you need is to load GRUB 2 (and its configuration). Check this link for instructions on how to quickly setup your own PXE server (using dnsmasq).
Install instructions for the tested/supported distributions:
Only Debian and CentOS are officially released and validated as part of the reference software platform project, but other distributions can be easily supported as well (just need kernel and installer changes).
Extra resources for other distributions:
Follow the instructions on how to install and run OpenStack Liberty on Debian Jessie.
Follow the instructions to install ODPi BigTop Hadoop
Follow the instructions to configure and install Hadoop