Re: [Wg-test-framework] Notes from Dec 10 meeting with AllNet

["Paul L. George" <pgeorge@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian, 

Today was a very productive day.  Don, Myself, Chris George and George Pacil
were all involved in trying to slay the server dragons.  Don and Chris
figured out how to wire the RS-232 RJ-45 to DB9-F adaptor.  We are
communicating thru the Serial ports on both Newcastle and Gateshead.  The
COMTROL controller and the 32 port RS-232 patch panel breakout unit are
working as they are supposed to be.

We have setup and verified the operation on 6 test servers and should be in
great shape by the middle of next week.  

We have configure the BIOS settings to comply with the list Ian gave us.  To
that end I am going to put a small monitor, mouse and keyboard in the
Cabinet at the COLO so if we run into BIOS problems we will easily have a
way to resolve the issues.

I will get the IP scheme data from the COLO tech tonight or tomorrow.  I
will publish it as soon as I get it.

We are going to start to do the COLO installation this weekend and hopefully
we will be on line with both main servers, the serial connection connected
to at least 2 sets of test servers along with the TCPIP connections thru the
48 Port HP switch. 

We have filled my lab with various sets of servers in various states of
configuration.  I hope to have all the servers we have in our possession
configured and ready to install at the COLO by Christmas.

We are missing 2 servers that are the replacement for Item 3 and Item 5.  We
are also waiting for servers 7 & 9.  We have discovered a few problems with
the servers we have.  I was able to resolve problems with 2 of them.  We
have a DELL set that does not want to let us install DEBIAN.  They run
MEMCHK fine but freeze when we start to install the Graphical Installation
of DEBIAN.  I think that we failed to notice if the server was INTEL or AMD.
I believe this server set was AMD.  I have to make an AMD boot DVD.  This
did not occur to me until this instance.  I guess status reports have some
value after all.

Cheers Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: Don Koch [mailto:dkoch@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 12:15 PM
To: Ian Jackson
Cc: 'Lars Kurth'; wg-test-framework@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; pgeorge@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Wg-test-framework] Notes from Dec 10 meeting with AllNet

On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:09:38 +0000
Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Don Koch writes ("Re: [Wg-test-framework] Notes from Dec 10 meeting with
AllNet"):
> > Found a new driver on their site (after going through a bad "not 
> > there" link).  Built and it seems to find the ports. Not yet talking 
> > to the other side, yet.
> 
> I'm uncomfortable about the idea of an out-of-tree kernel module, 
> unless it's absolutely necessary.
> 
> If it's just a missing PCI ID can we not just use the modalias system 
> to cause the existing driver to recognise the device ?

IIUC, no, we can't use the modalias system. It already maps all rocketport
boards to the rocket driver. The actual code checks for the device ID and
0x0061 is not in the list. We'd either have to modify the rocket driver or
use the one provided by the vendor.

> Ian.

-d


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