From owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Fri Nov 15 02:21:37 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EAD41B96E1 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2019 02:21:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rpokala@freebsd.org) Received: from smtp.freebsd.org (smtp.freebsd.org [96.47.72.83]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.freebsd.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47DhtS6qP4z4ZWx; Fri, 15 Nov 2019 02:21:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rpokala@freebsd.org) Received: from [172.17.133.228] (unknown [12.202.168.51]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: rpokala) by smtp.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3EF123F2A; Fri, 15 Nov 2019 02:21:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rpokala@freebsd.org) User-Agent: Microsoft-MacOutlook/10.1f.0.191110 Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:21:33 -0800 Subject: Re: Request for Recommendations: media / transcode server From: Ravi Pokala To: Josh Paetzel , "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" Message-ID: <9B3E7B34-E961-4950-9467-5D1EA5DDAFD6@panasas.com> Thread-Topic: Request for Recommendations: media / transcode server References: <09D335B0-6323-4626-ABC1-3163C43FA966@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <09D335B0-6323-4626-ABC1-3163C43FA966@tcbug.org> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 02:21:37 -0000 -----Original Message----- From: Josh Paetzel Date: 2019-11-14, Thursday at 03:35 To: Ravi Pokala Cc: "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Request for Recommendations: media / transcode server =20 >=20 > On Nov 14, 2019, at 12:40 AM, Ravi Pokala wrote= : > ... > _ =20 The bad news. =20 No one is making server class boards off the current gen SoC based x86 = stuff like they did with the atom c2000 based stuff. I ended up with my current board because we were evaluating C2000 at work, = and we used this board to do it. It worked well at the office, so I picked o= ne up for myself. (As luck would have it, we started using C2000 late enough that the errata = had already been discovered and fixed by the time we started shipping, so ou= r products don't have this problem.) I had planned to move forward to one of the follow-on SoCs, but I wasn't ab= le to find any the last I checked. But! I just checked ark.intel.com for Denverton (the codename of the follow= -on SoC), and found quite a few of them; it looks like they're branded as "C= 3000". And I was able to find quite a few "C3000"s at Supermicro: https://www.supermicro.com/en/search?Search=3DC3000 I'll look more closely tonight, but those seem to be in the right ballpark = at least. If you look for J4000/J5000 based boards all there is are media server = boards with no BMC, 1 SODIMM slot, two SATA ports, and a single PCI-e slot.=20 "Media server" and "two SATA ports"... You=E2=80=99ll need to step up to something like a SM X11SPA which is a lot o= f board to get what you want. Yeah, I don't need a full-blown Xeon for this. Heck, I don't even want some= thing with a *socket* for this! :-) =20 Supposedly the ARM ecosystem was going to fill that void (or pushed x86= out depending on who you ask) but I don=E2=80=99t really know if that happened.=20 Indeed. Alas, neither the arm64 hardware nor our arm64 support seems to be = quite there yet. :-( Thanks! Ravi (rpokala@) Thanks, =20 Josh Paetzel =20