Paul <jpkeen+opensola...@gmail.com> writes: > I have been trying to find a motherboard that will support an Intel Core i5 > CPU. I also need to have the ability to remotely reboot the system if it > should hang and have remote KVM functionality to access the BIOS and monitor > the boot process. Lastly I will need two NICs (preferably on-board). After > looking around it seems that the Super Micro C7SIM-Q will do what I need. It > has an Intel Q57 chipset that supports both the Core i5 as well as Intel > vPro/AMT that will allow me to remotely reboot the system and have remote KVM > capabilities. Unfortunately the C7SIM-Q system board does not list Solaris > as a compatible OS. > > I will be using a Core i5 with on-board video. Video support will only be > needed for installation ... no X-windows or on-going graphical display will > be needed. No audio will be needed. If need be I can also use a PCI-E HBA > for the hard drives. If I go with this board I would really like to try to > get both on-board NICs to work ... at the very least I would need to get one > of them working. > > Any suggestions or advice on using this board with Solaris or do you think I > am just wasting my time even trying to make this work? Obviously I don't > want to purchase the board if it will not work. I would think that since I > would only minimally need drivers for the NICs and video. Do you think that > opensolaris would support basic video w/ this board/cpu? Any ideas of if the > NICs or storage might work? Or does anyone have any suggestions for anther > board that would support my needs?
That is really the 2 million dollar question you might could ask on 2cpu.com which deals with a lot of questions about chipset support. But off the top of my head if you could find the chipset supported say in the HCL then it would be a good chance that it would work. You are really traversing in uncharted lands this might be the case for upcoming Intel chipsets as well. I would use a wait and see approach or use say Gnu/Linux until the support is added that way you could get use out of the hardware until the drivers are written. If you already have an Oracle support contract you might want to call your support team and see if they can give you a better answer they might pay more attention if a current customer has plans and need hardware support. After all it's not like you don't have other options. As far as other board manufactures you might have the same problems until the chipset is supported and your hardware is recognized you probably won't get results. I am sure that a lot of people would be interested in your choice as they are curious but do not want to be alpha testers for such hardware. I am not surprised that Super-Micro and Tyan and others do not offer official support for some of their hardware. Oracle doesn't seem to want to support such white box solutions either so even if they wanted to support the hardware Oracle might not want to give it as it could lead to missed sales of Oracle hardware. Good luck! Rthoreau _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
