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GE VR12

WARNING: On 64bit VME DMA is not working correctly. There is no error, but bogus data (mostly 0) is returned. The reason is unknown and subject to further investigation (free time provided).

An RTM Board with disk drive and further I/O is available.

BIOS and Boot Settings

At delivery PXEboot and BMC is disabled and a BIOS access is a must.

COM 3

Enable COM3 for BMC management.

VME / TSI148 Bridge

There is a BIOS option called TSI148 Configuration to reserve VME space. For the time being 512MB is used.

Network Interfaces

The controller can support up to 4 network interfaces eth1-4.

All interfaces except the one that is registered for PXEboot must be disabled.

However, depending on the PCIe mapping, the boot process spends an extremely long time
in the attempt to acquire a DHCP lease even for ports which do not provide a physical link.

To fix this, the PCIe nodes of all unused ethernet interfaces must be disabled (enabled on default).

ds/hardware/vme/gevr12.txt · Last modified: 2015/04/09 20:11 by tmilosic