On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Myles Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Myles Watson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> All, >> >> I'm looking for a system to port to v3. It needs to be Dual socket F. >> >> Here's the "simplified" block diagram of the system that I have: >> >> Opteron - Opteron >> | >> Chipset >> | >> PCIe >> >> And the system that I need: >> >> Opteron - Opteron >> | | >> PCIe Chipset >> >> Notice that the second socket has an independent link to a PCIe controller. >> >> The Tyan s2895 would work, but I need socket F. >> >> My question is if you know of any Socket F systems that would fit the bill. >> I'm especially interested in what chipsets they use. I'd like to port it to >> Coreboot-v3. > > Here are some candidates that I've found: > > Tyan Thunder n6650W (S2915-E) > - NFP 3600 + NFP 3050 > - 3600 support in v2, but not 3050. Any guesses how hard it would be? > > I'm guessing that IO 55 is the NFP 3050. If so, these boards would be > similar to port: > Tyan Thunder n6650EX (S4989) > - 4 processors > > Supermicro H8QM3-2 > Supermicro H8QMi-2 > > These boards are 4 Opteron + MCP55 + AMD 8132 (PCI-X instead of PCIe) > Supermicro H8QM8-2(+) > Supermicro H8QME-2(+) > > I'm still looking at other vendors' sites. Not all of them make it > easy to see how the chips are connected. >
I don't know of a stand alone HT-PCIe bridge but there are a few PCIX ones available. Look at the HTC page under the products tab. http://www.hypertransport.org/ The serverworks/broadcom ht2000/1000 are in the v2 tree under southbridge/broadcom/bcm57*. Marc -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
