There were some serious security issues with hardware and software from
Supermicro (espionage chips, firmware)
For me a NoGo!
On 15.06.19 12:52, Andrew Luke Nesbit wrote:
On 15/06/2019 10:36, Jonathan Gray wrote:
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 09:02:11AM +0100, Richard Laysell wrote:
Hello,
I was trying OpenBSD on a Supermicro A2SDi-4C-HLN4F which uses an Intel
Atom CPU (Denverton). The board boots but most devices are not
detected because ACPI can't be enabled.
Does anyone know if this is likely to be supported at some point?
Try a snapshot. ACPI changes were made for a similiar machine
(Lanner NCA-1510) in May.
However there is no support for the integrated X553 Ethernet at the
moment.
Jonathan, thank you for the update.
Richard, I am in the market for one of these boards too, or some other
C3000 series model. I'm a big fan of Supermicro's C2000 boards because
they are so versatile for low-power applications. They are also
excellent home servers due to this and the correspondingly low heat and
noise. Of course if you have a C2000 series board you would need to
ensure that it doesn't suffer from the notorious Erratum AVR.54 defect [1].
Please could you keep us updated re: your progress of getting OpenBSD
installed along with the support status of all devices? If so this
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!
[1] A little-known fact is that if you look through Intel's data sheets
and whitepapers you can find similar defects in the stepping errata for
other SoC's. In my case I found an almost identical example in a recent
Celeron or Pentium J-series SoC. To add to my disappointment, I later
discovered, entirely coincidentally, that it was used on the controller
boards for a model of Synology NAS that I was considering purchasing.
Andrew
