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[mc36 <>]

i also got the notification....

On 7/13/22 14:33, Fr  d  ric LOUI wrote:
> Yes, I   m receiving update notification. But ideally Csaba and Alex also 
> should receive them.
>
> > Le 13 juil. 2022    14:31, Gawen Davey <> a   
> > crit :
> >
> > It was my understanding that you should    have received a notification this 
> > morning, but that appear not to be the case.
> >
> > @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: Fr  d  ric 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
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > From: Alexander Gall <>
> > > Sent: 13 July 2022 11:18
> > > To: Gawen Davey <>
> > > Cc: Fr  d  ric 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?
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > 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