Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2022 15:47:58 -0700 From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ice Lake / C621A supported, or anyone actually running on it? Message-ID: <Ypfsnph6Djo3F1L9@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <BFADBF7B5DE7EAFC95EFE287@[10.12.30.106]> References: <BFADBF7B5DE7EAFC95EFE287@[10.12.30.106]>
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On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 02:04:00PM +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote: | We're looking at some new kit which is Intel Ice Lake (Xeon Scaleable 3rd | Gen) - apparently based on C621A chipset. | | I can't find anyone (e.g. via search engine) running FBSD on this - so just | wondered what the chances are it would boot /work? Or if anyone actually | has it running on this kit? NIC's don't seem too outlandish (Intel i350) - | but it has 'flexible' bays which can apparently host SATA3 or nvme drives - | which looks concerning - support wise... FreeBSD current seems to run on Ice Lake, Rome & Milan that $work makes ... Finally got a VIC driver limping along to UEFI PXE boot our blade or rack servers. Some systems support SATA/SAS and NVME u.2 but not in tri-mode. Some systems have the u.2 NVME routed to the CPU directly or through a switch. I bounce them between Linux and FreeBSD as needed. Doug A.
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