Support for supermicro 7501 based boards and issues with 3ware raid cards

[Schafer, Christopher L]

Linux BIOS Team,

I was wondering if there is any active work on the above Supermicro
boards and are there issues with accessing the 3ware raid controllers
bios tools if one is using linux BIOS?

Thanks,

Chris Schafer

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Schafer, Christopher L wrote:
> I was wondering if there is any active work on the above Supermicro
> boards and are there issues with accessing the 3ware raid controllers
> bios tools if one is using linux BIOS?

I don't have these but 7501 is supported nowadays. Have not tested this 
board.

ron

[steven james]

Greetings,

The 7501 chipset is supported, but the setup will probably need some
tweaking for the Supermicro. Currently, it's for Intel Clearwater
(se7501sw2).

The 2Ware BIOS tools will likely not work under LinuxBIOS. Are they
actually necessary, or just a convieniance (I've not worked with it)?

G'day,
sjames

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Schafer, Christopher L wrote:
> Linux BIOS Team,
>
> I was wondering if there is any active work on the above Supermicro
> boards and are there issues with accessing the 3ware raid controllers
> bios tools if one is using linux BIOS?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris Schafer
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steven james  writes:
> Greetings,
>
> The 7501 chipset is supported, but the setup will probably need some
> tweaking for the Supermicro. Currently, it's for Intel Clearwater
> (se7501sw2).

The E7501 chipset code does not work in a general fashion.  We have
a working supermicro board here as well.  But it only works when
the right set of magic values are hard coded into some
undocumented registers at the moment.  We are still tracking this down.

Steven the code you put in the tree misses a few places that need to
be changed to properly support the 133Mhz memory clock.

So in short the E7501 support is almost there and but it needs just a little
bit more work.  We are after Intel to get documentation on their last
couple of registers and if all else fails we can attempt to reverse
engineer them.

We shall see how that goes.

Eric