Date: 2023-12-21
Last Updated: 2024-03-01
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PRODUCT INFORMATION
Arm SystemReady SR-compliant SOAFEE’s reference development platform based on Ampere Altra SoCSystem configuration:
COM-HPC Ampere Altra server type module with Ampere Altra 32-core SoC
COM-HPC Server Base carrier board
32 GB 3200MHz DDR4 ECC Reg
128 GB NVMe M.2 storage
1x GbE + 4x 10GbE LAN ports (optional)
64x PCIe Gen4 lanes (3 x16, 2 x4 and 2 M.2 slots)
Liquid cooling assembly (optional)
750 Watt power supply
Tower enclosure
Specifications:
Ampere Altra SoC (Arm Neoverse N1 based architecture), 32 Arm v8.2 64-bit cores up to 1.7GHz, Arm SystemReady SR, 32GB DDR4 memory, 128GB NVMe storage, 64x PCIe Gen4 lanes (3 x16 available), 4x 10GbE (optional) and 1x GbE LAN, 4x USB 3.0/2.0 and 2x USB 3.0 [rear I/O], 2x USB 3.0 [front panel], open source EDKII, Yocto Linux OS support
GRAPHICS
PHYSICAL OUTPUT
The AVA contains an Aspeed VGA output, and some display managers (gdm3 confirmed) choose it by default, even if it’s not connect and even though HDMI is available. I could not find any config setting or work around to make gdm3 ignore the VGA output except for disabling the ast
kernel module:
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