Rare project developers

[mc36 <>]

hi,
could you please check if
-it passes packets back and forth through the frontpanel
-it survives a reload process bfswd, and after that, it passes packets?
(in my case, after clear p4 p4, the transceivers were not shown up)
thanks,
cs


On 7/13/22 12:18, Alexander Gall wrote:
> Hi Gawen
>
> I have integrated the BSP into our RARE release packaging for testing.
> This is for version apsn-bsp-9.9.0-1629ccd. I now have access to the
> APS portal but it's unclear to me where I should look for newer
> tarballs. You say you "attach it to the service ticket", but I don't
> know what exactly that means.
>
> Anyway, the BSP is working with the tweaks you suggested (the efuse
> patch and disabling Thrift). There was one issue I ran into on the
> system that I have access to for testing wrt the temperature sensors:
>
> Temp_L0          | 60.000     | degrees C  | ok    | 0.000     | 3.000     | 
> 5.000     | 75.000    | 80.000    | 85.000
> Temp_L1          | 48.000     | degrees C  | ok    | 0.000     | 3.000     | 
> 5.000     | 75.000    | 80.000    | 85.000
> Temp_L2          | 51.000     | degrees C  | ok    | 0.000     | 3.000     | 
> 5.000     | 75.000    | 80.000    | 85.000
> Temp_L3          | 35.000     | degrees C  | ok    | 0.000     | 3.000     | 
> 5.000     | 75.000    | 80.000    | 85.000
> Temp_CPUB        | 53.000     | degrees C  | ok    | 0.000     | 3.000     | 
> 5.000     | 75.000    | 80.000    | 85.000
> Temp_L4          | 49.000     | degrees C  | ok    | 0.000     | 5.000     | 
> 10.000    | 80.000    | 83.000    | 85.000
> Temp_MAC         | 72.000     | degrees C  | ok    | 10.000    | 20.000    | 
> 30.000    | 100.000   | 105.000   | 110.000
>
> The BSP uses a warning threshold of 60 and Temp_MAC exceeds that. This
> causes a massive flood of log messages. I've applied a patch that
> raises the threshold to 80 for now. Two questions:
>
>     1) Is the threshold of 60 really appropriate?
>     2) Can you consider a rate-limit for the warning messages?
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 15:01:50 +0000, Gawen Davey 
> <> said:
>
> > Not yet. Haven't had the time to look at the 6064x. It is on my very long 
> > list of things to do.
> > The BSP should support the SAL. You won't get link states, but you will be 
> > able to add ports.
>
> > Make sure you install ipmitool. Otherwise the BSP will keep spawning 
> > processes which don't appear to be get reaped... I'll fix that later
>
> > The tarball has been added to the ticket.
>
> > Can you let me know if the LEDs work?
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > From: Fr  d  ric LOUI <>
> > Sent: 24 June 2022 15:58
> > To: Gawen Davey <>
> > Cc: mc36 <>;  <>; Alexander 
> > Jeffries <>;
> >  <>
> > Subject: Re: BSP 9.9.0 Updates
>   
> > Congratulation Gawen !
>
> > Couple of questions:
>
> > - is this BSP 9.9.0 tarball also works with BF6064X ?
> > - is the Gearbox ports are usable ?
> > - if the second point is "yes" this means we will still uses SAL
>
> > Again, great work,
>
> > All the best
> > Frederic
>
> > > Le 24 juin 2022    16:44, Gawen Davey <> a   crit 
> > > :
> > >
> > > Hello Everyone,
> > >
> > > Here's a quick update:
> > >     Csaba has an apparently working BSP, so this is good news. If any of you 
> > > need it let me know and I can prepare a tarball. (Csaba
> > doesn't have this as I added him to the repo directly)
> > >     Intel have committed to fix the issue I identified and supplied a patch 
> > > for. This should be in the 9.9.1 release which is expected
> > to be released on the 3rd of August
> > >     Currently working on the Thrift bindings. Not quite sure how long this 
> > > will take, it looks a bit complicated...
> > > Gawen