Rare project developers

[Alexander Gall <>]

Hi Gawen

On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:31:50 +0000, Gawen Davey 
<> said:

> It was my understanding that you should​ have received a notification this 
> morning, but that appear not to be the case.

Actually I did. Sorry for the confusion.

-- 
Alex

> @csaba, @frederic, are you receiving update notifications? Frederic I would 
> absolutely expect you should as I set you up as the requestor.

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

> On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 10:48:20 +0000, Gawen Davey 
> <> said:

>> 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).

> Ok. It didn't occur to me to use the threshold from IPMI :)

>> 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

> Perfect, thanks.

>> 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.

> No problem. I guess I should now receive an automated notification
> when you update the ticket?

>> 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.

> Sorry to hear that. I hope you make a full recovery. I had my COVID
> back in March.

>> 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?

> I don't want to take up anyone's seat, but that would actually be
> nice.

> I don't have permanent access to a device and there I can basically
> only test whether things are starting up without issues. I can't do
> any tests with traffic nor can I check things like LEDs or test
> different plugins.

> --
> Alex

>> 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