AMD64 Compat List

[Per Bojsen <per.bojsen@comcast.net>]

I've been running the gcc-3.4 distribution on an IWill DK8N board with
one Opteron 248 since late November without any significant problems.
So I suggest adding the following to the list of supported boards:

  Mainboard    IWill DK8N
  ATA          amd74xx
  ATA Raid     -
  Serial ATA   sata_nv + sata_sil (have only used sata_nv)
  SCSI         -
  Network      forcedeth
  Sound        - (I have an Audigy 2 card, so have not tried the
                 integrated sound under Linux)

I put amd74xx for ATA as this is the module I load.  The board is
nForce3 250Gb-based and the amd74xx has support for this chipset.
Make sure to list this driver in /etc/modules before ide_generic,
otherwise it will not be used and DMA will not be available.

For sensors I am using the w83627thf module, but I do not trust
the results I am getting.  It is probably a matter of editing
sensors.conf for the DK8N.  IWill may have hooked up the Winbond
chip in a non-standard way.  Here is the output from sensors:

w83627thf-isa-0290
Adapter: ISA adapter
VCore:     +1.56 V  (min =  +1.93 V, max =  +1.93 V)       ALARM  
+12V:      +0.00 V  (min = +10.82 V, max = +13.19 V)              
+3.3V:     +3.26 V  (min =  +3.14 V, max =  +3.47 V)              
+5V:       +4.96 V  (min =  +4.75 V, max =  +5.25 V)              
-12V:     -14.91 V  (min = -10.80 V, max = -13.18 V)              
V5SB:      +4.97 V  (min =  +4.76 V, max =  +5.24 V)              
VBat:      +2.48 V  (min =  +2.40 V, max =  +3.60 V)              
fan1:        0 RPM  (min = 4560 RPM, div = 2)                     
CPU Fan:     0 RPM  (min = 18750 RPM, div = 2)                     
fan3:        0 RPM  (min = 3292 RPM, div = 2)                     
M/B Temp:    +45�C  (high =   +36�C, hyst =   +64�C)   sensor = diode   ALARM   
CPU Temp:  +36.0�C  (high =   +80�C, hyst =   +75�C)   sensor = thermistor           
temp3:    +127.5�C  (high =   +80�C, hyst =   +75�C)   sensor = thermistor   ALARM   
vid:      +0.000 V  (VRM Version 9.0)
alarms:   Chassis intrusion detection                      ALARM
beep_enable:
          Sound alarm enabled

Several of these do not make sense, e.g., the -12V which is reported
to be at almost -15V; the M/B temp is higher than the CPU temp and the
CPU temp is lower than the temp I'm getting from a probe attached to
the heatsink.  I don't trust temp3 either.  I'm guessing that M/B
temp and CPU temp have been swapped.  This matches better with my
other temp probes.

As for the fans, I don't have any fans connected to the fan sensors on
the motherboard, so the 0 values are not of concern.

Anybody else on the list with this board?

Per

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Per Bojsen                                              <per.bojsen@comcast.net>
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