Which board?

[Jeff Noxon]

I'm about to put some 1U servers together at the office.  I want to use
LinuxBIOS because they will be operated offsite, and it makes management
easier.  So I want Linux in Flash.

Which Xeon boards are recommended at this point in time?

Thanks

Jeff

[ron minnich]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> Which Xeon boards are recommended at this point in time?

Adam Agnew has had good luck with the Tyan 7501-based boards. Supermicro 
is causing us trouble with the 7501 chipset in getting the port working.

Adam is probably one of the right guys to ask, as are Steve James and the 
crew at Linux Labs; Atipa also ships 7501-based systems. You can start 
with those guys I would guess.

ron

[Adam Agnew]

If you do go with i7501 boards, I have an i7501 HOWTO in the works, and
patches so you can use the Rage XL that comes on many of them as a
framebuffer (for 2.6, i'll have a 2.4 patch finished tomorrow). That
should solve the issue of vga support.

- Adam Agnew

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, ron minnich wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> > Which Xeon boards are recommended at this point in time?
>
> Adam Agnew has had good luck with the Tyan 7501-based boards. Supermicro
> is causing us trouble with the 7501 chipset in getting the port working.
>
> Adam is probably one of the right guys to ask, as are Steve James and the
> crew at Linux Labs; Atipa also ships 7501-based systems. You can start
> with those guys I would guess.
>
> ron
>
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Adam Agnew  writes:
> If you do go with i7501 boards, I have an i7501 HOWTO in the works, and
> patches so you can use the Rage XL that comes on many of them as a
> framebuffer (for 2.6, i'll have a 2.4 patch finished tomorrow). That
> should solve the issue of vga support.

Cool.  That should solve the server video problem.

Adam I could probably use some nagging to get my last port to the
supermicro x5dpr (and E7501 board) pushed into the tree.  That has
a lot of generic bug fixes that are not in the main tree yet.

Eric

[Adam Agnew]

> Cool.  That should solve the server video problem.
>
> Adam I could probably use some nagging to get my last port to the
> supermicro x5dpr (and E7501 board) pushed into the tree.  That has
> a lot of generic bug fixes that are not in the main tree yet.

Alright. How about this: I'll trade you my rage xl initialization patches
for both 2.6 and 2.4 for you committing your x5dpr changes? :)

- Adam Agnew