Hardware

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Cooler?
10/30/23, 10:36 AM • Philipp Krause 4/23/26, 8:45 AM

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runnercot
4/23/26, 8:45 AM

@snowrider I love how this forum dives into the nuances of snowrider! It’s great to se...
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Looks like my Ampere Altra Dev Kit stopped working - stuck at boot
3/24/26, 8:35 PM • Philipp Krause 3/27/26, 2:33 PM

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Philipp Krause
3/27/26, 2:33 PM

Apparently this was a known issue when installing OpenBMC on older EDKII firmware: someone else r...
OpenBMC for ADLINK Ampere Altra systems is now available
3/5/24, 2:13 PM • Rebecca Cran 3/24/26, 11:50 AM

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Philipp Krause
3/24/26, 11:50 AM

The README at github mentions that the goal is to upstream the work. Any news on that? P.S.: I j...
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UART console redirection
12/30/25, 3:21 PM • Nikolai Motorin 2/10/26, 3:33 AM

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davenport kim
2/10/26, 3:33 AM

We ran into a similar situation on COM-HPC platforms. In our case, the documentation mentioned UA...
JTAG debugging of Ampere Altra CPU
3/5/24, 5:00 PM • Rebecca Cran 4/25/24, 9:26 PM

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Rebecca Cran
4/25/24, 9:26 PM

@Alex Bennée Sorry but I don't know if I can share the document that ADLINK sent me privat...
Access to SMPro telemetry from the BMC
11/23/23, 10:20 PM • Rebecca Cran 3/5/24, 2:09 PM

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Rebecca Cran
3/5/24, 2:09 PM

@Marvin Drees I've asked for access to the MMC code in the past and was told it couldn't be provi...
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i2c iic Ampere Altra i2c - freebsd tinkering
1/15/24, 11:41 AM • David Robertsson 2/6/24, 4:06 AM

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Anson
2/6/24, 4:06 AM

Hi David, We got something update for the freeBSD I2C problem. Kernel community la...
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Dead device - No BIOS - IPMI works. -- Resolved
1/1/24, 5:22 PM • David Robertsson 1/12/24, 7:13 PM

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David Robertsson
1/12/24, 7:13 PM

@Anson Thank you for the 100% support!and again thanks to @Willy Tarreau for chipping in as well...
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[Help Needed] Need the Definition of DB40 connector of A2 board.
11/6/23, 2:24 PM • Jiaheng Wang 12/27/23, 4:00 AM

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Willy Tarreau
12/27/23, 4:00 AM

@Rebecca Cran OK that's good to know, but I'm definitely not interested in going down that route....
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AVA CPU frequency capped to 2.3 GHz instead of 2.6 GHz
7/4/23, 6:11 AM • Willy Tarreau 12/6/23, 11:17 AM

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Willy Tarreau
12/6/23, 11:17 AM

Well, after reverting to EDK2 2.04.100.11, finally the system is back to 2.3 GHz... Grrrr... I th...
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CPU Replacement
9/8/23, 10:05 PM • Andrew Ernest 12/6/23, 10:37 AM

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Willy Tarreau
12/6/23, 10:37 AM

FWIW the repository is back online with updates, and the new image in the download area managed t...
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bios Unable to boot from Carrier BIOS by setting JP27-29
11/1/23, 12:22 PM • Jiaheng Wang 12/6/23, 10:33 AM

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Willy Tarreau
12/6/23, 10:33 AM

Just for info, the firmware based on MMC 2.09 + EDK2 2.04.100.11 that is available in the downloa...
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Synchronous Exception at 0x00000000F8222CF4
11/27/23, 7:26 PM • Willy Tarreau 12/6/23, 10:32 AM

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Willy Tarreau
12/6/23, 10:32 AM

Just to inform other users that after the last update in the download area with MMC 2.09 and EDK2...
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No cpu temperature and system inventory info in BMC
9/26/23, 5:11 AM • Jiaheng Wang 11/16/23, 7:23 PM

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Rebecca Cran
11/16/23, 7:23 PM

For the CPU temperature issue, the BMC would need to be built with the Linux smpro-core and hwmon...
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Release plans for newer BMC and EDK2?
10/31/23, 4:01 AM • Olof Johansson 11/14/23, 4:26 AM

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Rebecca Cran
11/14/23, 4:26 AM

@Will 💜 I have it reading data from the FRU and showing the system information (mfg, serial numbe...
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usb header on carrier not work
10/16/23, 4:25 AM • Jiaheng Wang 10/17/23, 3:33 AM

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Lauryn Hsu
10/17/23, 3:33 AM

Hi Jiaheng, Sorry for USB4, 5 and USB6, 7 aren't supported on the COM-HPC-ALT（Ampere Alt...
FAN_0 not working?
5/27/23, 10:09 PM • Rebecca Cran 10/16/23, 5:32 AM

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Lauryn Hsu
10/16/23, 5:32 AM

Hi Rebecca, As the current FAN_0 does not have a PWM signal due to an optional BOM on th...
fan module soc Does the (micro) fan connector on the module work?
7/2/23, 5:52 PM • Rebecca Cran 10/16/23, 5:30 AM

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Lauryn Hsu
10/16/23, 5:30 AM

Hi Ian, Rebecca, As the current FAN_0 does not have a PWM signal due to an optional BOM ...
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Bifurication not working with Gen 4 PCI-Express, and more problems with GEN 4 PCI support
10/3/23, 5:15 PM • Derek den Haas 10/5/23, 2:51 AM

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Anson
10/5/23, 2:51 AM

Hi Derek, Can you send me an email, I will ask an expert to provide you the proper config...
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PCIe bifurcation
9/21/23, 11:13 PM • James Liu 10/3/23, 5:05 PM

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Derek den Haas
10/3/23, 5:05 PM

The first slot is root complex #1, so set this to 4x4x4x4.

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