On 03/03/13 14:18, Andrew Goodbody wrote:
On 03/03/13 14:04, Andrew Basterfield wrote:
Due to the lack of CPU in socket #2 the board becomes a little crippled; 2nd PCIe slot and 2nd ethernet no are longer available; maybe coreboot would work OK with both sockets populated but the single socket configuration has not been encountered?
--Andrew
You took one CPU out because the board misbehaved. All bets are off. I would blame the lack of 2nd PCIe slot and 2nd ethernet on the same hardware fault that caused the 2nd CPU to misbehave. Different firmware is not going to fix faulty hardware. It may be just a fault in the single CPU configuration but you have no way to tell. The only thing you know for sure is that there is a hardware fault.
Andrew
Hi Andrew
The lack of 2nd PCIe and ethernet is expected behavior when the 2nd socket is empty - please see the following
ftp://ftp.tyan.com/manuals/m_s2895_101.pdf
Please see 2nd 'NOTE' section 2.4 page 18
Looking at the system architecture section 2.2, page 9, it becomes clear why this is so.
I think I will have to re-cap the board to restore the 2nd CPU socket to eliminate this variable.
--Andrew