On Jun 15, 2012, at 7:10 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> My computer builder is putting a system together for me based on the
> Supermicro X9DAi motherboard
> (http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DAi.cfm) and with
> development OpenIndiana (several months old Illumos) pre-installed.
>
> Thinking about Illumos driver availability, I also selected LSI 9211-8i SAS,
> Qlogic QLE2562 Fibre Channel, and and a nVidea Quadro Fermi 4000 video card.
> Boot is from a pair of SATA drives.
>
> This is what my computer builder tells me is still not supported by
> development OpenIndiana on this motherboard:
>
> USB 3.0 chip
> C600 chipset thermal management
> Last 4 ports of the onboard SATA controller
>
> I am told that the audio driver (RealTek ALC889 7.1 High Definition Audio)
> "works" but that audio goes away sometimes.
>
> The CPU thermal management seems to work fine.
>
> I am surprised about the SATA port issue. This would be a major issue for
> someone who thinks that they can avoid the lack of Intel C606 SAS driver by
> selecting the Intel C602 SATA chipset.
If the SATA ports are AHCI, they should work. But there is a newer controller
used for both SAS and SATA on Romley chipsets (the SCU), and that may be what
is present on the C602 as well just limited to only support SATA (I think this
is actually the case). So probably we still need the appropriate driver for
that. A few people have started work at various points (including me, a long
time ago at my former employer), but I don't know if anyone has reached the
point of a working driver yet.
- Garrett
>
> Bob
> --
> Bob Friesenhahn
> [email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
> GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
>
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