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Stefano Marinelli
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Jaap de Vos
@jaap@mastodon.illumos.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last week

I'm building a new EPYC Rome node for my home data center, trying to figure out if OmniOS can run everything I want. The last component just arrived and the machine is memtesting right now.

Over the years I've ran mostly ESXi and I've also tried to love (but didn't) Proxmox. My new node has a twin sister with a Skylake Xeon, running Fedora. If everything goes to plan the twin can be migrated to OmniOS later too.

Some specs:
- Inter-Tech 4U-4408 storage chassis
- Supermicro H11SSL-i motherboard
- AMD EPYC 7302P CPU (16 cores)
- 8x 16 GB DDR4 3200 ECC RDIMM (Samsung)
- 1x 2 TB M.2 NVMe WD SN700
- 2x 16 TB HDD Toshiba MG09

This motherboard is a little funny. You get two SFF-8643 connectors, but there's no SAS chip, so you can only break them out to SATA. Suits me fine for this build, the chassis backplanes happily take SFF-8643 too. The H11SSL-i motherboard is alright. EPYC Rome also fits a H12SSL-i which would get me PCIe 4.0, but the price for the motherboard + CPU combo would have doubled and I don't really need it for this build.

The Inter-Tech (German brand) chassis are pretty nice for affordable DIY builds. 4U is sweet because you can use regular ATX PSU's and fit heat sinks with fans that don't sound like jet engines. The heat sink I have now is a "CooNong" (? bless me) that I got with the motherboard. Looks like a clone of the same style that Supermicro sells. It came with the most crappy fan humanity ever laid eyes on so I promptly fitted a Noctua like the rest of the fans. As usual, motherboard warns about fan speeds being too low, expecting high RPM data center fans, but temps are otherwise fine. At least there's no audible warning for the fan speeds on this motherboard. The result: you can actually work right next to the machine.

#InterTech#Supermicro#AMD#EPYC #illumos#OmniOS

Supermicro motherboard in Inter-Tech chassis with memory, M.2 SSD, storage backplane visible, ATX PSU and Noctua fans present.
Supermicro motherboard in Inter-Tech chassis with memory, M.2 SSD, storage backplane visible, ATX PSU and Noctua fans present.
Supermicro motherboard in Inter-Tech chassis with memory, M.2 SSD, storage backplane visible, ATX PSU and Noctua fans present.
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Jaap de Vos
@jaap@mastodon.illumos.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last week

I'm building a new EPYC Rome node for my home data center, trying to figure out if OmniOS can run everything I want. The last component just arrived and the machine is memtesting right now.

Over the years I've ran mostly ESXi and I've also tried to love (but didn't) Proxmox. My new node has a twin sister with a Skylake Xeon, running Fedora. If everything goes to plan the twin can be migrated to OmniOS later too.

Some specs:
- Inter-Tech 4U-4408 storage chassis
- Supermicro H11SSL-i motherboard
- AMD EPYC 7302P CPU (16 cores)
- 8x 16 GB DDR4 3200 ECC RDIMM (Samsung)
- 1x 2 TB M.2 NVMe WD SN700
- 2x 16 TB HDD Toshiba MG09

This motherboard is a little funny. You get two SFF-8643 connectors, but there's no SAS chip, so you can only break them out to SATA. Suits me fine for this build, the chassis backplanes happily take SFF-8643 too. The H11SSL-i motherboard is alright. EPYC Rome also fits a H12SSL-i which would get me PCIe 4.0, but the price for the motherboard + CPU combo would have doubled and I don't really need it for this build.

The Inter-Tech (German brand) chassis are pretty nice for affordable DIY builds. 4U is sweet because you can use regular ATX PSU's and fit heat sinks with fans that don't sound like jet engines. The heat sink I have now is a "CooNong" (? bless me) that I got with the motherboard. Looks like a clone of the same style that Supermicro sells. It came with the most crappy fan humanity ever laid eyes on so I promptly fitted a Noctua like the rest of the fans. As usual, motherboard warns about fan speeds being too low, expecting high RPM data center fans, but temps are otherwise fine. At least there's no audible warning for the fan speeds on this motherboard. The result: you can actually work right next to the machine.

#InterTech#Supermicro#AMD#EPYC #illumos#OmniOS

Supermicro motherboard in Inter-Tech chassis with memory, M.2 SSD, storage backplane visible, ATX PSU and Noctua fans present.
Supermicro motherboard in Inter-Tech chassis with memory, M.2 SSD, storage backplane visible, ATX PSU and Noctua fans present.
Supermicro motherboard in Inter-Tech chassis with memory, M.2 SSD, storage backplane visible, ATX PSU and Noctua fans present.
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Angela Antunovic
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Framework :fedora: :ubuntu:
@frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

We delivered on generational graphics upgradeability in a laptop. The new Framework Laptop 16 with #AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series processors, #NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 graphics, and 240W USB-C power adapter is now live and available for pre-order at https://frame.work/laptop16!

Configure once. Upgrade whenever. heart emoji. Framework Laptop 16 displayed as an exploded visual with components separated into varies positions from the base of the laptop. This visual effect was created practically, not generated. (Now with AMD + NVIDIA ) Pre-orders start now smiley face
Configure once. Upgrade whenever. heart emoji. Framework Laptop 16 displayed as an exploded visual with components separated into varies positions from the base of the laptop. This visual effect was created practically, not generated. (Now with AMD + NVIDIA ) Pre-orders start now smiley face
Configure once. Upgrade whenever. heart emoji. Framework Laptop 16 displayed as an exploded visual with components separated into varies positions from the base of the laptop. This visual effect was created practically, not generated. (Now with AMD + NVIDIA ) Pre-orders start now smiley face
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Framework :fedora: :ubuntu:
@frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

We delivered on generational graphics upgradeability in a laptop. The new Framework Laptop 16 with #AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series processors, #NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 graphics, and 240W USB-C power adapter is now live and available for pre-order at https://frame.work/laptop16!

Configure once. Upgrade whenever. heart emoji. Framework Laptop 16 displayed as an exploded visual with components separated into varies positions from the base of the laptop. This visual effect was created practically, not generated. (Now with AMD + NVIDIA ) Pre-orders start now smiley face
Configure once. Upgrade whenever. heart emoji. Framework Laptop 16 displayed as an exploded visual with components separated into varies positions from the base of the laptop. This visual effect was created practically, not generated. (Now with AMD + NVIDIA ) Pre-orders start now smiley face
Configure once. Upgrade whenever. heart emoji. Framework Laptop 16 displayed as an exploded visual with components separated into varies positions from the base of the laptop. This visual effect was created practically, not generated. (Now with AMD + NVIDIA ) Pre-orders start now smiley face
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Jeremy Garniaux
@jeremy@mapstodon.space  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

For the record, and as far as I've found out, #AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 chips (present in the most recent @frameworkcomputer #Laptop13, for example) dont support #BluetoothLE.

Which is a pity and turned my so promising synth-geeking-lunch-break into a exhausting-forum-search-session-to-fix-something-that-couldn't-be-fixed.

*sigh*

https://fr.gadgetversus.com/processeur/amd-ryzen-ai-7-350-vs-mediatek-dimensity-8300-ultra/

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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

U.S. President Donald Trump’s controversial plan to take a cut of revenue from chip sales to China offers U.S. companies a model for circumventing years of trade tensions with the Asian giant. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/14/tech/trump-deal-nvidia-trade-war/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #nvidia #amd #semiconductors #jensenhuang #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #china

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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Nvidia and AMD agreed to pay 15% of their revenues from chip sales to China to the US government as part of a deal with the Trump administration to secure export licenses, the Financial Times reported Sunday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/11/tech/nvidia-amd-china-chip-us/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #nvidia #amd #china #semiconductors #tech #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs

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theruran 💻 🌐 :cereal_killer:
@theruran@masto.hackers.town  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

medium-to-low severity CVEs, but "critical threat" — a new class of CPU side-channel attack: Transient Scheduler Attack

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/amd_tsa_side_channel/

#infoSec#sideChannel#AMD

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Brad Linder
@bradlinder@fosstodon.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

This work-in-progress DIY fanless PC has a 7.5 liter chassis and some heavy-duty passive cooling. It's built to support a Framework Desktop mainboard with an AMD Ryzen AI Max 395+ chip and 64GB of unified memory. https://www.fanlesstech.com/2025/07/custom-75l-strix-halo-system.html #fanless#PC#FrameworkDesktop#StrixHalo#AMD

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TUXEDO
@tuxedocomputers@linuxrocks.online  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Up To 30% Faster Integrated Graphics

Responsible for all graphics rendering are AMD Radeon 800M series graphics processors, which are integrated into the CPU. Equipped with 8, 12 or 16 graphics cores, depending on the CPU, the power-saving iGPU achieves up to 30% higher speed than the Radeon 780M in last year’s InfinityBook Pro 14 - Gen9.

👉 Discover all details and configuration options here: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-InfinityBook-Pro-14-Gen10.tuxedo

#tuxedo #linux #infinitybook #amd

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Eva Winterschön
@winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

💾 Quick HomeLab Update 💾

As a follow up to this morning's iGPU 512M GART debugging (re: drm-61-kmod memory leak on amdgpu.ko), here are some pics. Reluctantly, the "ok fine" method for testing the memory leak allocation aspects involves using a non-integrated GPU which requires the same driver, for which this low-TDP single-slot AMD W7500 was acquired. Sometime tomorrow it will be installed in my workstation, which is the third chassis from the bottom (4U) situated above the two 5U chassis (HCI private cloud for GPU compute VMs).

More to follow...

#gpu #amd #ai #homelab #freebsd #linux #

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Eva Winterschön
@winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

Panic most recently used by lkpikmalloc ...

Well, that was fast... didn't even get a mouse cursor of a full MATE Desktop menu system load. Was yet to connect kgdb to COM1 (need to swap from minicom to do so)... makes me want a PCIe RS232 card (for "comconsole_pcidev") so that I have a few more COMs to play with on redirects. Gotta love these iGPU tash-bins eh? "It's better than not having a GPU right?" ... not really.''

Closed bug report from the drm-515-kmod, discussing amdgpu memory leak. so, maybe a new one in drm-61-kmod, would not be surprised.
- https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/issues/258

Short term revision of approach:
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1. Today via post arrives, an AMD Radeon Pro W7500 (single slot 8GB, Navi-whatever gen)
2. I'll block off the iGPU during loader.conf sequence, using a "pptdev" blackhole (not for VM pt, but maybe an experiment for a 14.1 VM with the known-good amdgpu version).
3. Known as: throw money at the problem?

Some hardware notes:
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1. This is not a Nvidia GPU situation; there are several generations of cards in the room which have been cycled through the workstation during "hardware isolation" and "process of elimination" sequences. I know those are stable, and which gen cards require which nvidia driver versions for stability purposes.

2. This is not a FreeBSD kernel issue, nor a Xorg "Plain Jane FrameBuffer" situation. The kernel (14.0, 14.1, 14.2) is stable and fine, and the basic vt driver for non-4K display-port functionality works fine. I can work all day in a series of tmux windows with some fifty or so panes, but that's not quite the optimal experience.

3. The AMD iGPU (Raphael) maxes out default to 512MB GART VRAM, and it can handle 240Hz @ 4K all day with no issues as long as that 512M doesn't get used up... that is until the latest amdgpu kmod drm, which crashes whenever it feels like it.

Michael... yes yes, I do have a lot of hardware, but this issue has surpassed the Sunk Cost Fallacy and has become a consumate knowledge-requirement process. I must know where this is failing so horrendously, otherwise the operating rule of "if it doesn't fulfill its hardware destiny, it will get the hammer and flames"... and the hardware is too nice for that - plus I could involve Supermicro support since it's still in warranty, but a replacement motherboard or CPU for the iGPU isn't going to solve a kernel module issue.

In the interim, laptop life and tablet meetings are getting me by, mostly decently.

Debug items of interest:
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intsmb0: at device 20.0 on pci0
intsmb0: Could not allocate I/O space
device_attach: intsmb0 attach returned 6

drmn0: Fetched VBIOS from VFCT
amdgpu: ATOM BIOS: 102-RAPHAEL-008
drmn0: Trusted Memory Zone (TMZ) feature not supported
drmn0: PCIE atomic ops is not supported
drmn0: VRAM: 512M 0x000000F400000000 - 0x000000F41FFFFFFF (512M used)
[drm ERROR :amdgpu_bo_init] Unable to set WC memtype for the aperture base

Loader items of usage:
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# Multi-Console Output
# boot output primary: TTY, standard monitor via UEFI
# boot output secondary: COM1 RS232 Redirect (physical)
# boot output tertiary: COM2 RS232 Redirect (BMC SoL)
ipmi_load="YES"
boot_mute="NO"
boot_verbose="YES"
verbose_loading="YES"
boot_multicons="YES"
boot_serial="YES"
console="efi,comconsole,comconsole"
comconsole_port1="0x3F8"
comconsole_speed1="115200"
comconsole_port2="0x2F8"
comconsole_speed2="115200"
hw.uart.console="io:0x3f8,br:115200 io:0x2f8,br:115200"

#amd #gpu #drm616kmod #freebsd #debugging #engineering #4amlife #5amlife #debuggingForever#tiredOfDebugging#goddamnMemoryLeaks#linuxDriversByAssociation#moreTerminals #rs232#tiredNowGoNap #friday

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