> 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/
I don't know why I didn't think to look there. Thanks for the reminder. > The serverworks/broadcom ht2000/1000 are in the v2 tree under > southbridge/broadcom/bcm57*. Good to know, that broadens my search. I wish everything didn't have 2 names. Thanks, Myles -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
