On Mar 15, 2012, at 7:36 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> Is Illumos prepared to boot and run properly on Intel's new two-socket Xeon
> E5-2600 configurations?
>
> Does Illumos provide drivers which will work with the SATA ports offered by
> the Intel C602 chipset, and/or the 8 SAS ports offered by the Intel C606
> chipset?
It boots, but the onboard SAS ports are not supported *yet*. Work is underway
to address that.
The SATA ports should just work -- they are AHCI.
I've heard that there may be other things that aren't quite right - e.g.
missing support for FMA, etc.
>
> Is there any Illumos issues associated with PCI-E 3.0?
None that I'm aware of, but this is still new territory for us.
- Garrett
>
> Example motherboards offering these features are the SuperMicro X9DR3-LN4F+
> (http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DR3-LN4F_.cfm)
> and X9DRi-LN4F+
> (http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DRi-LN4F_.cfm).
>
> Bob
> --
> Bob Friesenhahn
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> GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
>
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