It sounds like you're considering the X10SDV-TLN4F. (FWIW, "SMCI" is another way to refer to Supermicro - SuperMicro Computer Inc, so the aforementioned anecdote about asy.conf weirdness is relevant.)
Also, I should point out, the "Xeon D-series" and "Pentium D" are distinctly different things. ;) - Rich On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jun 2015, Robert Mustacchi wrote: >> >> >> 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. > > > I assume that Joyent (or some other interested party) is already planning to > do the updates for the new 10 GbE interfaces. Is that a fair assumption? > >> 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). > > > The system I would have built is based on SuperMicro hardware. > > I like it that Pentium D is so well integrated and requires so little power > compared with its apparent good performance. The system reliability should > be improved by requiring so few components. I will use only SSDs so the > power savings should be realized. > > Bob > -- > Bob Friesenhahn > [email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > > > ------------------------------------------- > illumos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now > RSS Feed: > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21253829-71dc39ef > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
