Yeah, I was also under impression by the subject, he was talking about Pentium 4 D , that is 64-bit but 2 core 4 threads and much older... (have one around) And It's not "Pentium" aether, but Xeon...
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
