On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Lu, Yinghai wrote: > 1. Is there anything special in BIOS to be done for making serial over > LAN or IPMI over LAN working with your BMC daughter card...? I mean > connection to NIC shared or I2C.
I don't recall the details; its possible there is some BIOS interaction involved in setting up the SuperIO for serial mux. > 2. Good to hear that separated FLASH for LSI... > 3. Can you check the protocol for USB that BMC simulated? OHCI or UHCI > or EHCI only? It should be OHCI. I remember booting over virtual USB was rather slow at USB1.1 but infinitely useful. -duncan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Duncan Laurie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 11:13 AM > To: Lu, Yinghai > Cc: Frank Rust; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Is this system supported? SUN FIRE X4100 > > On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Lu, Yinghai wrote: > > What OS are you going to use? > > > > Things to be checked > > 1. settings for to make management card working > > Nothing required IIRC, but optional features such as the boot > mailbox are available. The service processor does not have > an RTC so it relies on the BIOS to set its time with Set SEL > Time command but this could be easily done after boot with > the OpenIPMI driver and ipmitool script. > > Flash of system BIOS can be done through the service processor > as it has hooks into the LPC bus (system must be in reset for > this to work). This means a LinuxBIOS port would not be overly > dangerous since you can always flash a working BIOS by reloading > SP firmware (which includes a system BIOS). > > > 2. Is the LSI FW on BIOS flash or another separate flash? > > 3. Boot from SAS raid directly? We may need to use big IDE flash for > using tiny kernel and kexec... > > > > LSI firmware is on a separate flash. Disk boot will be tricky > but getting network boot working should be easier. Boot over > redirected USB via service processor might also work... > > -duncan > > -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
