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[Gawen Davey <>]

Hi Alex,

Yes, the limit is too low. In a subsequent build I have set it to 75, which matches at least what IPMI thinks the warning threshold should be. If this is still a problem I can investigate rate limiting messages, but I would need to check with either ODM or Intel whether or not this is safe (depending on the sensor).

With regards to the "service ticket", I was attaching the latest builds as attachments to a ticket in our support portal, a ticket that you have been added as a participant for. I made a "reply to customer" to notify you after I added you as a participant, and that has either not worked, or, (after looking at my very terse reply) it was not communicated well. In any case, the URL for the ticket is https://aps-networks.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/3/ANTS-233

I have since added the latest BSP build to the ticket, however, further updates will be slow to come as our lab is currently moving country. 

In any case, other than the sensor threshold, the CPU ports should be working again (if they weren't before), and some further unit and/or integration tests have been added. If I remember correctly I was last working on integration tests for packet transmission via the CPU ports, but am still playing a bit of catch as I was off from late last week with covid, and may not have gotten a chance to make a final push to Git.

P.S. We keep the BSP code on Github; while we have limited seats available, since you have all been incredibly helpful, I was wondering whether or not some of you would find it useful to have access to it?

Gawen

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From: Alexander Gall <>
Sent: 13 July 2022 11:18
To: Gawen Davey <>
Cc: Frédéric LOUI <>; mc36 <>; <>; Alexander Jeffries <>
Subject: Re: BSP 9.9.0 Updates

 

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?
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> From: Frédéric 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 à 16:44, Gawen Davey <> a écrit :
>>
>> 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