On 6/7/15 8:22 , Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> I am considering having a small server system built for me based on the
> new Pentum D
> ("http://ark.intel.com/products/87039/Intel-Xeon-Processor-D-1540-12M-Cache-2_00-GHz";).
>
>
> Pentum D (D-1540) is a Broadwell-based server-oriented SOC (14nm) with
> Ethernet and SATA/AHCI interfaces built into the SOC. This makes for
> very good power efficiency (45W for whole SOC). There are duplex
> gigabit and duplex 10 gigabit interfaces built in to the SOC. It is not
> clear to me what the Ethernet interfaces are similar to, but presumably
> they are compatible with previous Intel Ethernet interfaces.
>
> Is there any reason for concern that Illumos (e.g. as provided with
> OmniOS) won't just boot and work properly on these new CPUs?
Hi Bob,
In general, illumos should just boot up on those new CPUs just fine.
However, there are some ixgbe updates we're going to need to do for the
10 GbE devices as they are a new chipset. However, the 1 GbE should work.
Someone else who booted an SMCI version had a weird issue with asy that
we hadn't gotten to the bottom of and I have some samples coming in over
the next few weeks which I'm hoping to use to enable the new features in
Broadwell over the coming months; however, aside from ixgbe, everything
else should work (some stuff we just won't take advantage of).
Robert
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