[LinuxBIOS] Is this system supported? SUN FIRE X4100

[Frank Rust]

Is this one supported, or might become supported soon?
System SUN FIRE X4100

Mainboard manufacturer: (SUN?)
Processor: one or two Opteron or Opteron Dual Core
Chipset: AMD 8131, AMD 8111
IO: quad channel SAS raid (LSI SAS 1064)
Net: 2 dual 10/100/1000 Ethernet Controllers (Intel FW82546 GB NIC)
Video: ATI Rage XL
Floppy Disc, legacy Serial: SMSC LPC47B272 Super IO Controller
(additional: Management: Motorola MPC8248PowerPC Processor)

Supported OS: Solaris 10 x64, RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0-4.0, SUSE 
Linux Enterprise Server 9, MS Windows Server 2003

(Documentation: white paper: 
http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x4100/arch-wp.pdf)

Best regards,
Frank.

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Frank Rust  [060410 09:42]:
> Is this one supported, or might become supported soon?
> System SUN FIRE X4100
>
> IO: quad channel SAS raid (LSI SAS 1064)

unsupported
> SMSC LPC47B272 Super IO Controller

unsupported

The rest should be rather easy to get up and running. 
the Super IO is needed for serial output and is therefore fundamental.

Stefan

[Ronald G Minnich]

I think it would "Just work". We've been trying to interest sun for some 
time in a port, but no calls back yet.

ron