[CentOS] Is X79 Motherboard supported by latest "Centos 5.9" version?

Sun Aug 25 13:15:01 UTC 2013
Steve Brooks <steveb at mcs.st-and.ac.uk>

On Sun, 25 Aug 2013, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:

> On 08/25/2013 11:41 AM, Steve Brooks wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the reply, I have included the "lspci" output from the new
>> board running "el6". I am sure that the kernel is not PAE but can not
>> check as I am at home and the test machine is turned off at work. I did
>> however run a yum update on the machine so I am wondering if that would
>> notice the memory was sufficient to benefit from a PAE kernel? I will pop
>> into work later to day and post the running kernel.
>>
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 DMI2 (rev 07)
>> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 IIO PCI Express Root
>> Port 1a (rev 07)
>> 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 IIO PCI Express Root
>> Port 2a (rev 07)
>> 00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 IIO PCI Express Root
>> Port 3a in PCI Express Mode (rev 07)
>> 00:05.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Address Map,
>> VTd_Misc, System Management (rev 07)
>> 00:05.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Control
>> Status and Global Errors (rev 07)
>> 00:05.4 PIC: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 I/O APIC (rev 07)
>> 00:11.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset PCI Express
>> Virtual Root Port (rev 05)
> <snip>
>
> It is better that you provide output of "lspci -nn" so DeviceID's are
> also listed, to be searched for kernel modules, device drivers.
>
> Like:
> 00:14.5 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
> SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller [1002:4399]
>
> Device ID in this case is: 1002:4399
>
> So you can go to http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs and check if there are
> kmod packages to provide the driver for that device.
>
> Also worth noting is that ElRepo also provides 3.0.x kernels for CentOS
> 5.x that should be kABI/ABI compatible. Latest is 3.0.93.

I have included the "lspci -nn" output below. The X79 board and Centos 5.9 
seem to be fine.. It boots, the SATA disk seems to work as expected it 
just would be good to actually clarify the system is safe to use.

Ok here is the memory and kernel information it doesn't state PAE yet it 
seems to recognise the 32G.

[root at app2 ~]# uname -a
Linux app2 2.6.18-348.12.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jul 10 05:31:48 EDT 2013 i686 
i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root at app2 ~]# free
              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3574676     425772    3148904          0      26748     266128
-/+ buffers/cache:     132896    3441780
Swap:      4192924          0    4192924
[root at app2 ~]#  cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal
MemTotal:      3574676 kB






00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3c00] (rev 06)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3c02] (rev 06)
00:02.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3c04] (rev 06)
00:03.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3c08] (rev 06)
00:05.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3c28] 
(rev 06)
00:05.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3c2a] 
(rev 06)
00:05.4 PIC [0800]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3c2c] (rev 06)
00:11.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1d3e] (rev 05)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Device 
[8086:1d3a] (rev 05)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1503] 
(rev 05)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1d2d] (rev 
05)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1d20] (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1d10] (rev b5)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1d12] (rev b5)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1d14] (rev b5)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1d16] (rev b5)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1d18] (rev b5)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1d1a] (rev b5)
00:1c.7 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1d1e] (rev b5)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1d26] (rev 
05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] 
(rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1d41] (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1d02] (rev 
05)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1d22] (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Device 
[10de:104a] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: nVidia Corporation Device [10de:0e08] (rev 
a1)
06:00.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Device [1b21:1042]
07:00.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Device [1b21:1042]
08:00.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Device [1b21:1042]
09:00.0 SATA controller [0106]: Device [1b21:0612] (rev 01)
0a:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 
[1106:3403] (rev 01)
0b:00.0 SATA controller [0106]: Device [1b4b:9130] (rev 11)
ff:08.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3c80] 
(rev 06)
ff:08.3 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3c83] 
(rev 06)
ff:08.4 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3c84] 
(rev 06)
ff:09.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3c90] 
(rev 06)
ff:09.3 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3c93] 
(rev 06)
ff:09.4 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3c94] 
(rev 06)
ff:0a.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3cc0] 
(rev 06)
ff:0a.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3cc1] 
(rev 06)
ff:0a.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3cc2] 
(rev 06)
ff:0a.3 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3cd0] 
(rev 06)
ff:0b.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3ce0] 
(rev 06)
ff:0b.3 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3ce3] 
(rev 06)
ff:0c.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3ce8] 
(rev 06)
ff:0c.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3ce8] 
(rev 06)
ff:0c.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3ce8] 
(rev 06)
ff:0c.6 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3cf4] 
(rev 06)
ff:0c.7 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3cf6] 
(rev 06)
ff:0d.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3ce8] 
(rev 06)
ff:0d.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3ce8] 
(rev 06)
ff:0d.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3ce8] 
(rev 06)
ff:0d.6 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3cf5] 
(rev 06)
ff:0e.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3ca0] 
(rev 06)
ff:0e.1 Performance counters [1101]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3c46] 
(rev 06)
ff:0f.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3ca8] 
(rev 06)
ff:0f.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3c71] 
(rev 06)
ff:0f.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3caa] 
(rev 06)
ff:0f.3 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3cab] 
(rev 06)
ff:0f.4 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3cac] 
(rev 06)
ff:0f.5 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3cad] 
(rev 06)
ff:0f.6 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3cae] 
(rev 06)
ff:10.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3cb0] 
(rev 06)
ff:10.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3cb1] 
(rev 06)
ff:10.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3cb2] 
(rev 06)
ff:10.3 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3cb3] 
(rev 06)
ff:10.4 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3cb4] 
(rev 06)
ff:10.5 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3cb5] 
(rev 06)
ff:10.6 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3cb6] 
(rev 06)
ff:10.7 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3cb7] 
(rev 06)
ff:11.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3cb8] 
(rev 06)
ff:13.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3ce4] 
(rev 06)
ff:13.1 Performance counters [1101]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3c43] 
(rev 06)
ff:13.4 Performance counters [1101]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3ce6] 
(rev 06)
ff:13.5 Performance counters [1101]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3c44] 
(rev 06)
ff:13.6 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3c45] 
(rev 06)


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Dr Stephen Brooks

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