Rare project developers

[Gawen Davey <>]

Time for a three way handshake joke:

RST

I'll show myself out...

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From: mc36 <>
Sent: 13 July 2022 14:07
To: Frédéric LOUI <>; Gawen Davey <>
Cc: Alexander Gall <>; <>; Alexander Jeffries <>
Subject: Re: BSP 9.9.0 Updates

 

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
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