Document Outline

• Table of Contents
  • Safety Instructions vii
  • Preface x
  • 1. Product Description 2
  • 2. Board Features 7
  • 3. Installing the Board 17
  • 4. Thermal Considerations 22
  • 5. Software Setup 28
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Safety Instructions
  • Before You Begin
  • Preventing Electrostatic Discharge
  • Safety Requirements
• Preface
  • How to Use This Guide
  • Customer Comments
  • Advisory Conventions
  • Unpacking
  • Regulatory Compliance Statements
  • Limited Warranty
• 1. Product Description
  • 1.1 Product Overview
  • 1.2 What’s Included
  • 1.3 Board Specifications
  • 1.4 Hot Swap Capability
  • 1.5 Software Support
• 2. Board Features
  • 2.1 Block Diagram
  • 2.2 System Core
    • 2.2.1 Cavium OCTEON II CN6645
  • 2.3 eUSB Storage
  • 2.4 SFP+ Front IO
  • 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet
  • 2.6 Serial Rapid I/O (SRIO)
  • 2.7 PCIe
  • 2.8 SGMII / XAUI
  • 2.9 RS232 Management Interface
  • 2.10 IPMI
  • 2.11 AMC Connector
  • 2.12 Front Panel LEDs
    • 2.12.1 Hot Swap LED (Blue LED)
    • 2.12.2 Out-Of-Service (OOS) LED (LED1)
    • 2.12.3 Health LED (LED2)
    • 2.12.4 SFP + LED
• 3. Installing the Board
  • 3.1 Hot Swap Insertion Procedures
  • 3.2 Hot Swap Extraction Procedures
  • 3.3 Memory
    • 3.3.1 Memory List and Characteristics
  • 3.4 Software
  • 3.5 System Access
    • 3.5.1 Front Port Serial Connection
• 4. Thermal Considerations
  • 4.1 Thermal Monitoring
  • 4.2 External Thermal Regulation
    • 4.2.1 Forced Airflow
    • 4.2.2 Thermal Characteristic Graphs
      • 4.2.2.1 How to Read the Diagram
      • 4.2.2.2 Airflow
    • 4.2.3 Airflow Impedance
    • 4.2.4 Airflow Paths
• 5. Software Setup
  • 5.1 MMC Firmware
    • 5.1.1 Related Documentation
    • 5.1.2 IPMI Sensors
      • 5.1.2.1 OEM Sensor Description
        • 5.1.2.1.1 Kontron FRU Info Agent
        • 5.1.2.1.2 Kontron IPMB-L Link
        • 5.1.2.1.3 Kontron MMC Firmware Upgrade Status
        • 5.1.2.1.4 Kontron Reset
        • 5.1.2.1.5 Kontron User SW UpgradeStatus
      • 5.1.2.2 Sensor Thresholds
    • 5.1.3 Field Replaceable Unit (FRU) Information
    • 5.1.4 E-Keying
    • 5.1.5 Watchdog
    • 5.1.6 MMC Firmware Code
    • 5.1.7 Updating MMC Firmware
    • 5.1.8 Override AMC.0 R2 support
  • 5.2 Board Firmware
    • 5.2.0.1 Image swap using bootloader predefined commands
    • 5.2.0.2 Image swap using ipmitool
    • 5.2.1 Switching between Firmware Images
  • 5.3 Bootloader
    • 5.3.1 Bootloader shell and options
    • 5.3.2 Protected variables
    • 5.3.3 NetConsole
    • 5.3.4 Booting Embedded Linux firmware from eUSB device
    • 5.3.5 U-boot memory configurations
    • 5.3.6 Network interfaces
    • 5.3.7 Bootloader Update
    • 5.3.8 Embedded Linux update
  • 5.4 Embedded Linux
    • 5.4.1 Embedded filesystem and init script customizations
    • 5.4.2 Access to NFS share from Cavium Embedded Linux
    • 5.4.3 eUSB Storage
    • 5.4.4 Booting over PCI (oct-remote-boot)
    • 5.4.5 Onboard flash access within Cavium Embedded Linux
    • 5.4.6 Ethernet over Serial Rapid IO
  • 5.5 Using CFGTOOL
    • 5.5.1 Usage
      • 5.5.1.1 Detailed Description of the Options
  • 5.6 Cavium Linux BSP
    • 5.6.1 Requirements
    • 5.6.2 Install Instructions
    • 5.6.3 Build
    • 5.6.4 Simple executive applications
• A. Connectors Pinouts
  • A.1 USB SSD Flash Module
  • A.2 SFP+ Front IO
  • A.3 Serial Port Pinout
• B. Getting Help
  • B.1 Returning Defective Merchandise
  • B.2 When Returning a Unit
• C. Glossary