On 09/06/2017 06:48 AM, Rene Shuster wrote: > So a case of "Dig before you call"? > Anyways I'm re-sending my questions since it appears that you didn't > receive them yesterday... > > Timothy, > Ubuntu Server is officially supporting Power8 > ( https://www.ubuntu.com/download/server/power8 > <https://www.ubuntu.com/download/server/power8> ). Do you have insight > if they will support Power9?
Yes, they will. > What's the name of the chipset your board > will be using? There is no chipset per se; as on most OpenPOWER systems the POWER PCIe lanes are brought directly out to the various on-board peripherals. Also c an we get a complete overview of all the I/O ports > with Make and Model#. I see what looks like 4 SATA ports (in 2 different > colors) on the board > ( https://static.rptorcs.com/TL2B01/images/boardsmall.png > <https://static.rptorcs.com/TL2B01/images/boardsmall.png> ), but they > are missing in the documentation > ( https://raptorcs.com/content/TL2B01/intro.html > <https://raptorcs.com/content/TL2B01/intro.html> ). The ports in question are driven off of the Microsemi SAS controller, so they work for both SAS and SATA. USB is driven by a TI USB 3.0 controller; serial is passed through the BMC (standard OpenPOWER design). > I would also like to > know what make & model the SATA controller is and the model of the > Broadcom NIC chip for example. BCM5719. There's some good info about the internals of the chip online [1] that provides a starting point to write a replacement firmware if you're interested. Otherwise, like all other peripherals, the NIC is behind the IOMMU and cannot access data in the CPU domain without kernel permission. > You might also want to add info to the site about the optional Microsemi > SAS 3.0 RAID controller. Right now it's unclear which one of their many > ICs will be onboard (I assume it will be > RAID-on-Chip: > https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/storage-ics/3689-raid-controllers > <https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/storage-ics/3689-raid-controllers> > ). I'll bring this up internally. It's the PM8068 controller (SmartIOC 2000). > > Else keep up the good work and t hanks for making this happen. No problem, thanks for the encouragement! [1] http://esec-lab.sogeti.com/static/publications/10-hack.lu-nicreverse_slides.pdf -- Timothy Pearson Raptor Engineering +1 (415) 727-8645 (direct line) +1 (512) 690-0200 (switchboard) https://www.raptorengineering.com -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
