On 09/06/2017 06:48 AM, Rene Shuster wrote:
So a case of "Dig before you call"? Anyways I'm re-sending my questions since it appears that you didn't receive them yesterday...
Timothy, Ubuntu Server is officially supporting Power8 ( https://www.ubuntu.com/download/server/power8 https://www.ubuntu.com/download/server/power8 ). Do you have insight if they will support Power9?
Yes, they will.
What's the name of the chipset your board will be using?
There is no chipset per se; as on most OpenPOWER systems the POWER PCIe lanes are brought directly out to the various on-board peripherals.
Also c an we get a complete overview of all the I/O ports
with Make and Model#. I see what looks like 4 SATA ports (in 2 different colors) on the board ( https://static.rptorcs.com/TL2B01/images/boardsmall.png https://static.rptorcs.com/TL2B01/images/boardsmall.png ), but they are missing in the documentation ( https://raptorcs.com/content/TL2B01/intro.html https://raptorcs.com/content/TL2B01/intro.html ).
The ports in question are driven off of the Microsemi SAS controller, so they work for both SAS and SATA. USB is driven by a TI USB 3.0 controller; serial is passed through the BMC (standard OpenPOWER design).
I would also like to know what make & model the SATA controller is and the model of the Broadcom NIC chip for example.
BCM5719. There's some good info about the internals of the chip online [1] that provides a starting point to write a replacement firmware if you're interested. Otherwise, like all other peripherals, the NIC is behind the IOMMU and cannot access data in the CPU domain without kernel permission.
You might also want to add info to the site about the optional Microsemi SAS 3.0 RAID controller. Right now it's unclear which one of their many ICs will be onboard (I assume it will be RAID-on-Chip: https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/storage-ics/3689-raid-controller... https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/storage-ics/3689-raid-controllers ).
I'll bring this up internally. It's the PM8068 controller (SmartIOC 2000).
Else keep up the good work and t hanks for making this happen.
No problem, thanks for the encouragement!
[1] http://esec-lab.sogeti.com/static/publications/10-hack.lu-nicreverse_slides....