Re: [Xen-users] hardware recommendations please

[Petter Klasson <petter.kl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually SP5100 is SB700 basically so there shouldn't be a (real) problem
there. IOMMU support/NB is worse though. But will probably be released
pretty fast. But I think it will be a while before RHEL gets it though. But
RHEL 5.4 will support it eventually according to Redhat and AMD. Should be
great for next year I hope. But boards are coming out now. Also VMware ESX
4.0 has been demoed with SR5690/SP5100 already. That's with PCI-e graphics
even. So it doesn't look like it's stuck in the stone-age anyway. AMD is
probably working hard on it.

Regards, Petter


Ward Vandewege wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:33:26PM -0400, Luke S Crawford wrote:
>> Ward Vandewege <ward@xxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>> > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 09:48:10PM -0400, Luke S Crawford wrote:
>> > > Speaking of which, if anyone is into the coreboot stuff, the n3600r
>> > > (s2912) I have is supposed to be supported, I could probably be
>> talked into
>> > > giving away (or selling very cheaply) some of the boards that only
>> > > work with dual-core, if you wanna play with coreboot.  
>> > 
>> > Note that the supermicro h8dme and h8dmr boards are also coreboot
>> > supported... H8dmr has quad-core support in tree. For h8dme not yet -
>> I'm
>> > working on that though.
>> 
>> Yes, well, I can't get h8dme and h8dmr boards for $80 each, but
>> the n3600r, s2912, however, I can get for about that price, so I would 
>> be happy to send one or two your way, if they would help.  
> 
> Thanks for the offer :) Maybe someone else will take you up on it.
> 
>> Is there any work on the new socket F boards with the AMD SR5690
>> chipsets?
> 
> The docs are not out yet for those chipsets. If you know people at AMD
> feel
> free to encourage them to keep up the good work and release docs for
> 5690/5100...
> 
> Thanks,
> Ward.
> 
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