Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 06:17:01 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r48047 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201601170617.u0H6H1rb074238@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Sun Jan 17 06:17:01 2016 New Revision: 48047 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48047 Log: Add entry on SoftIron bringup work from andrew Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Sun Jan 17 06:12:48 2016 (r48046) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Sun Jan 17 06:17:01 2016 (r48047) @@ -3287,4 +3287,54 @@ ABT Systems Ltd </sponsor> </project> + + <project cat='arch'> + <title>&os; on SoftIron Overdrive 3000</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Andrew</given> + <common>Turner</common> + </name> + <email>andrew@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://softiron.co.uk/products/">SoftIron Website</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>The SoftIron Overdrive 3000 is an ARMv8 based server with an + 8-core AMD Opteron A1100 processor. The Overdrive 3000 has + two 10Gbase-T ethernet ports, two PCI Express ports, and eight + SATA ports. &os; has been updated to be able to boot on this + hardware.</p> + + <p>Support for the SATA device was added to the + <tt>ahci(4)</tt> driver. Unlike on x86, this is a Memory Mapped + (mmio) device, and not on the PCI bus. To support this, a new + ahci mmio driver attachment has been added.</p> + + <p>The generic PCIe driver has been updated to improve interrupt + handling. This includes supporting the interrupt-map devicetree + property, and supporting MSI and MSI-X interrupts on arm64.</p> + + <p>Support for MSI and MSI-X interrupts has been added to the ARM + Generic Interrupt Controller v2 (gicv2) driver. This allows devices + to use these interrupts. This has been tested with a collection + of PCIe NIC hardware.</p> + </body> + + <sponsor> + SoftIron Inc. + </sponsor> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Write a driver for the 10Gbase-T NIC.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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