On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 09:36:08AM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > Is Illumos prepared to boot and run properly on Intel's new > two-socket Xeon E5-2600 configurations?
This is what's known as Romley, right? > Does Illumos provide drivers which will work with the SATA ports offered by > the Intel C602 chipset, and/or the 8 SAS ports offered by the Intel C606 > chipset? The SATA ports should Just Work, as they're EHCI. The SAS ports will require some device driver work, which is being examined by various parties. > Is there any Illumos issues associated with PCI-E 3.0? I'm not sure about that. > Example motherboards offering these features are the SuperMicro > X9DR3-LN4F+ > (http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DR3-LN4F_.cfm) > and X9DRi-LN4F+ > (http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DRi-LN4F_.cfm). Sorry I can't be of more immediate assistance, Dan ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
