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[Frédéric LOUI <>]

> I have looked at the ONIE partition csaba has provided (specifically
> the initrd within that) and it seems clear that this ONIE has not been
> branded at all for Asterfusion. Definitely something to take up with
> them. I
When I engaged with AsterFusion, they proposed me to event create a box that 
would be called GEANT-RARE/freeRTr-box 

But the discussion stopped when they asked me how many units of switches we 
plan to sell ! :-)

> Le 3 mars 2023 à 11:24, Alexander Gall <> a écrit :
> 
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 11:01:17 +0100, Frédéric LOUI <> 
> said:
> 
>>> I concluded that this should be asterfusion-x312p,
> 
>> Yes, if you could suggest to populate /etc/machine.conf to AsterFusion 
>> that would be ideal …
> 
>> Other than that we can create a ONIE rescue
>> and use "asterfusion-x312p-48y-t" or "asterfusion-x312p"
> 
>>> In any case, the value should not be "switch_os ».
> 
> I have looked at the ONIE partition csaba has provided (specifically
> the initrd within that) and it seems clear that this ONIE has not been
> branded at all for Asterfusion. Definitely something to take up with
> them. I think they don't need it themselves. The BSP contains scripts
> that try to identify the platform by looking at some hardware
> characteristics. I hope we can convince them to install a
> platform-specific ONIE or at least provide a rescue image for that
> purpose.
> 
> -- 
> Alex
> 
>> True !
> 
>>> Le 3 mars 2023 à 10:34, Alexander Gall <> a écrit :
>>> 
>>> On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 09:49:52 +0100, Frédéric LOUI 
>>> <> said:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Alex,
>>>> If I look at Asterfusion stratum folder the value should be:
>>>> x86-64-asterfusion-x312p-48y-t-r0
>>> 
>>> Almost. That's the "onie_platform", which is composed as
>>> ${onie_arch}-${onie_machine}-r${onie_machine_rev}. My stuff uses
>>> "onie_machine" to identify the system. From what I found in the
>>> Asterfusion Gitlab, I concluded that this should be asterfusion-x312p,
>>> but I might be wrong. In any case, the value should not be
>>> "switch_os".
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Alex
>>> 
>>>> You should be able to find ONIE IDs (for other TOFINO variant here below:
>>>> https://filesender.renater.fr/?s=download&token=618af1e5-b6a2-4927-8cb6-2d64a524ff075-b6a2-4927-8cb6-2d64a524ff07
>>> 
>>>> Normally cat /etc/machine.conf should provide the same result.
>>> 
>>>> I hope this help
>>>> Frederic
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>> Le 3 mars 2023 à 09:34, Alexander Gall <> a écrit :
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 09:13:19 +0100, Frédéric LOUI 
>>>>> <> said:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Reboot using ONIE.
>>>>>> If you cannot select it from GUB just boot from BIOS.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Select ONIE rescue:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> And then provide the output of:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> cat /etc/machine.conf
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yes, please. I can't download the img.gz files because I forgot what
>>>>> username/password I need for that. In any case, I'll have to ask
>>>>> Asterfusion why they are not using the proper machine id there.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Alex
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Le 3 mars 2023 à 09:11, mc36 <> a écrit :
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> okk if not then not...
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> from onie i dd-ed the default partitions
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> http://files.nop.hu/inet/barefoot/asterfusion-sda1.img.gz
>>>>>>> http://files.nop.hu/inet/barefoot/asterfusion-sda2.img.gz
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> go download and see yourself... it arrived with switch_os from the 
>>>>>>> factory
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> br,
>>>>>>> cs
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 3/3/23 09:09, Alexander Gall wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 09:03:17 +0100, mc36 <> said:
>>>>>>>>> alex, yess console=ttyS0 was in the installed grub but the console 
>>>>>>>>> was silent until we appended ,115200n8
>>>>>>>> Yes, the default config does not set the baud rate. This would have
>>>>>>>> been overridden if the platform had been identified correctly. That's
>>>>>>>> what the workaround below should do.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>