On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 13:04 +0100, Matthias Pfützner - Principal Field
Technologist - Systems Infrastructure Ambassador - Solution Architect
wrote:
> Super Micro has an attractive board for low power home systems:
> 
>         
> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H
> 
> Has anyone already put his hands on that thing, or knows, if the actual
> OpenSolaris build will/does support the compleet hardware? (Aka: Network,
> Graphics, Storage, plus "chipset")?

I don't know about that board, but I've just built a small, low-power
general purpose/3-disk NAS box with a Point of View ION-MB330-1 and
aside from 6920337, everything's working pretty well with it on snv_131.

I'll blog about the build at some stage. I went for the ION+330 board
rather than the D510 because I wanted NVDAgraphics support. From the
reviews I'd read, there didn't seem to be much in the performance
difference of the processor, whereas the graphics performance was a lot
poorer with the intel graphics.

ION2 is apparently due out soon, so waiting for that might be
worthwhile?

> On a different sidenote:
> 
> Looking at
> 
>         http://ark.intel.com/ProductCollection.aspx?familyID=29035
> 
> Intel is offering some very low power Atoms, that also have virtualization in
> them (VT-x), anyone already seen board for/with them, and knows, if
> OpenSolaris will work?

I guess it should, though with a 4gb memory limit on many of these
boards, would you really want to be running many guests?

        cheers,
                        tim

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