I have received a Morello board (in a tower case) and have made a bootable USB. However, I have never seen our Morello system generate anything on the monitor display. Not when turning the system on from its "as shipped" state and not with the USB plugged in and powered up. I suspect the display driver/hardware is not operable, but wanted to ask those with a known working system - at what point do you first see a message on the monitor?
For background: (1) I have verified the HDMI cable and monitor being used works (via HDMI from a laptop); (2) I have been able to use Minicom over the USB cable to interact with the MCC; and (3) the LCD on the Morello board displays the code 4F (but I've not seen documentation discussing possible LCD codes).
I have not seen the expected boot behavior documented in the referenced start-up materials. I infer from a forum posting that it seems there are BIOS messages when booting - is this true?
Have you updated the firmware? The original firmware that was put onto all the shipping boards lacks GPU/DPU support. If you’re following the CheriBSD installer guide it’s the first step.
Was not following CheriBSD - just ARM Morello (user guide, development platform, board setup, sdk, etc.). Nothing in the Morello documents, or for that matter the CheriBSD documentation it seems, indicates a lack of GPU/DPU support. Does indicate old firmware should be replaced (newer, better, bug fixes) but doesn't say it "won't work". Thanks for pointing this out. I will endeavor to update the firmware. As a reference for others, the CheriBSD documentation can be accessed via https://www.cheribsd.org/ and can also be found under the CTSRD-CHERI umbrella project on github at https://github.com/CTSRD-CHERI. I'll mark the answer as accepted once I verify that the firmware update solves this issue.