avr54

I have a Supermicro C2758 running PFSense as my main router, on gigabit fiber with an OpenVPN server. It's been freaking amazing since I deployed it and I just assumed I could keep it going forever. I was totally out of the loop on all the discussions of the Atom C2000 AVR54 bug that renders...

I’m considering buying a new switch or two for running SONiC. They’d be replacing a Gnodal 40GbE switch and a Juniper EX4500 10GbE switch. I need 20-ish QSFP ports and 20-ish SFP ports. Everything is 40/10 Gbps right now, and I don’t really *need* more bandwidth, but I’d rather buy 100/25...

Hello. Intel recently published PCN 116196-00 on Atom E3800 series CPUs stating they are going to transition to D1 stepping to mitigate LPC bus degradation issues: http://qdms.intel.com/dm/i.aspx/BF417A50-F5AE-4179-8393-08083292AC0D/PCN116196-00.pdf Summary of changes of the D-1 stepping: 1...

Hello. Intel created a new C0 revision of Atom C2000 (Avoton / Rangeley) replacing existing buggy B0. https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/specification-updates/atom-c2000-family-spec-update.pdf The only thing it fixes is the infamous AVR54 bug that causes the chip to...