Rare project developers

[Alexander Gall <>]

Hi

On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:27:08 +0200, mc36 <> said:

> could you please check if

No, I can't check any of this.  This is the system in Brasil. I don't
know how things are connected there and I have only access to that one
machine.

-- 
Alex

> -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