Open Wr0ngName opened 3 years ago
Hello Florent, I am currently digging into this as well, and am also getting the Failed to INIT PF for initial register 'init-state'
error on my server. Our system is running the following:
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v3
Aspeed AST2400 graphics
32GB DDR4
AMD FirePro s7150 (Not S7150x2)
It has been an absolute brutal path for me to even get to this point as I am trying to do this on a Chinese X99 motherboard.
It does feel like I am getting somewhere as I have found even the smallest of misconfiguration issues can stop this card from working correctly. If I can crack this I will share with you the results so that you and others may also get your systems running.
Hello,
We have been trying for months now to get our AMD Firepro S7150x2 working with Linux. Getting new motherboard and digging into UEFI capabilities. Now I have a better understanding of what has been wrong. But the difficulties we kept encountering could not be overcome.
Here is the setup:
Prerequisites (BIOS Setup, Hardware,..) listed on the VMware/Citrix deployment guides have been completed. Motherboard is set to use UEFI with AMD-v, IOMMU, ARI, memory mapping >4GB.
Both GPU and the 32 virtual ones are visible using LSPCI. Despite having blacklisted other modules, GIM is not loaded at startup probably because of the error. Its output from dmesg:
Regarding system, we tried using both Ubuntu server 16.04 and 20.04 (the latter without applying the kernel patch as they have been integrated, but using the fork for kernels 4.5+). Despite the multiple kernels, systems, and setups, the final ouput remains
gim error:(init_register_init_state:3641) Failed to INIT PF for initial register 'init-state'
.This is visible until attaching one of the 32 listed virtual cards to the VM and starting it. Then none of the cards is visible anymore via LSPCI. I have read on the internet that it is related to the card not initializing properly using UEFI, but turning on Compatibility Module (CSM), and the motherboard does not allow for booting up. The boot phase hangs when initializing the display, and I haven't been able to overcome the issue...
As we don't have another GPU available, and the CPU does not have an integrated one, we are stuck with the 2060 SUPER otherwise the system has no video output. Swapping the slots did not improve the situation.
Power cables are correctly connected to the power supply and the card shows up correctly in the UEFI settings.
I am still really hopeful as the card is recognized and the system is up and running. But I am not able to dig further into it... I hope you have all the information, but please ask if you need anything else.
Thanks for your time and precious help.
Best regards, Florent