Study Notes

In the morning, I had a meeting with Shan Xiaoyu(new comer in product department) and a testing engineer, Hou Xianghua. First off, I reviewed the BX1200 development process and pointed out something should be carefully concerted about. UIT OS installed in BX1200 is 2.6 kernel while the third party video-monitor software is implemented in 2.4 kernel before(RHEL 3.0 and Red Hat 9.0), so it seems to have to re-compile the codes in our 2.6 kernel to ensure it can run smoothly based on BX1200. Gavin told me, he wants the BX1200 becomes a general platform, either of end users or the software company who will integrate their monitor program and get benefit by reselling BX1200. UIT OS has not X-Windows, so it is not possible to view graphics in BX1200 console. The last point we must confirm is the Web management port. The current Web port(NAS/iSCSI) is 80, which should not be duplicated with Video-Monitoring programs.

SS2280 always annoys me. I found the platforms shipped in November 8th, have not riser card in the chassis. However, in the earlier box we got in October, it is implemented with two riser cards(full-length and half-length). As the result, we can not insert Intel 1000Mb Ethernet card in SS2280. I’ve reported this situation to Tobey Chan, QE from Inventec.

Tan yinhong said during his performance testing on BX1200, one network ports can get the best performance nearly about 1Gbps, while two ports still retain the same level. Obviously the result is not reasonable. The latest news I got from him, maybe it is caused by the re-direct codes. I call Inventec technical engineer, York Chen. The kindly man told me the two ports in SS2280 both have dedicated bus connected with ESB2 south bridge. Hmm, It sounds I have to validate the actual network bandwidth in tomorrow.