svn commit: r48047 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Sun Jan 17 06:17:02 UTC 2016

Author: bjk
Date: Sun Jan 17 06:17:01 2016
New Revision: 48047
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48047

Log:
  Add entry on SoftIron bringup work from andrew

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml	Sun Jan 17 06:12:48 2016	(r48046)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml	Sun Jan 17 06:17:01 2016	(r48047)
@@ -3287,4 +3287,54 @@
       ABT Systems Ltd
     </sponsor>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='arch'>
+    <title>&os; on SoftIron Overdrive 3000</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Andrew</given>
+	  <common>Turner</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>andrew at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="http://softiron.co.uk/products/">SoftIron Website</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>The SoftIron Overdrive 3000 is an ARMv8 based server with an
+	8-core AMD Opteron A1100 processor.  The Overdrive 3000 has
+	two 10Gbase-T ethernet ports, two PCI Express ports, and eight
+	SATA ports.  &os; has been updated to be able to boot on this
+	hardware.</p>
+
+      <p>Support for the SATA device was added to the
+	<tt>ahci(4)</tt> driver.  Unlike on x86, this is a Memory Mapped
+	(mmio) device, and not on the PCI bus.  To support this, a new
+	ahci mmio driver attachment has been added.</p>
+
+      <p>The generic PCIe driver has been updated to improve interrupt
+	handling.  This includes supporting the interrupt-map devicetree
+	property, and supporting MSI and MSI-X interrupts on arm64.</p>
+
+      <p>Support for MSI and MSI-X interrupts has been added to the ARM
+	Generic Interrupt Controller v2 (gicv2) driver.  This allows devices
+	to use these interrupts.  This has been tested with a collection
+	of PCIe NIC hardware.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>
+      SoftIron Inc.
+    </sponsor>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>Write a driver for the 10Gbase-T NIC.</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
