[coreboot] Good v3 port candidate for Socket F

[Myles Watson]

> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> All,
> >>
> >> I'm looking for a system to port to v3.  It needs to be Dual socket F.
> >>
> >> Here's the "simplified" block diagram of the system that I have:
> >>
> >> Opteron - Opteron
> >>   |
> >> Chipset
> >>   |
> >>  PCIe
> >>
> >> And the system that I need:
> >>
> >> Opteron - Opteron
> >>  |         |
> >> PCIe       Chipset
> >>
> >> Notice that the second socket has an independent link to a PCIe
> controller.
> >>
> >> The Tyan s2895 would work, but I need socket F.
> >>
> >> My question is if you know of any Socket F systems that would fit the
> bill.
> >> I'm especially interested in what chipsets they use.  I'd like to port
> it to
> >> Coreboot-v3.
> >
> > Here are some candidates that I've found:
> >
> > Tyan Thunder n6650W (S2915-E)
> > - NFP 3600 + NFP 3050
> > - 3600 support in v2, but not 3050.  Any guesses how hard it would be?
> >
> > I'm guessing that IO 55 is the NFP 3050.  If so, these boards would be
> > similar to port:
> > Tyan Thunder n6650EX (S4989)
> > - 4 processors
> >
> > Supermicro H8QM3-2
> > Supermicro H8QMi-2
> >
> > These boards are 4 Opteron + MCP55 + AMD 8132 (PCI-X instead of PCIe)
> > Supermicro H8QM8-2(+)
> > Supermicro H8QME-2(+)
> >
> > I'm still looking at other vendors' sites.  Not all of them make it
> > easy to see how the chips are connected.
> >
> 
> I don't know of a stand alone HT-PCIe bridge but there are a few PCIX
> ones available. Look at the HTC page under the products tab.
> http://www.hypertransport.org/

I don't know why I didn't think to look there.  Thanks for the reminder.

> The serverworks/broadcom ht2000/1000 are in the v2 tree under
> southbridge/broadcom/bcm57*.

Good to know, that broadens my search.  I wish everything didn't have 2
names.

Thanks,
Myles