Intel D-2146NT SoC Support (not D-2164NT)

[Pokala, Ravi]

> From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca>
> To: freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org
> Subject: Intel D-2146NT SoC Support (not D-2164NT)
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> Lyndon Nerenberg writes:
>> We're looking a buying a Supermicro system with the X11SDV-8C-TP8F
>> motherboard.  This uses a Xeon D-2164NT SoC. 
> 
> Sorry, I transposed :-P  The SoC is a D-2146NT.
> 
> --lyndon

Ark is your friend: https://ark.intel.com

In this case: https://ark.intel.com/products/136434/Intel-Xeon-D-2146NT-Processor-11M-Cache-2-30-GHz-?q=D-2146NT

>> In particular, we need to ensure that we can talk to each of the
>> 12 SATA ports as a standalone (JBOD) disk (this will be a ZFS
>> fileserver),

You actually don't need Ark for this. Look up the motherboard on the Supermicro site, and then look at the motherboard manual.

On page 17, the block diagram shows that all the SATA ports are coming from the SoC itself, not any supplemental SATA controllers. Intel AHCI controllers are pretty vanilla, so they should Just Work[tm]. (They might not be identified as being from Intel or as part of the proper SoC, but that's a lookup-table update.) Unless you go out of your way to enable ${WHATEVER_INTEL_CALLS_THEIR_FIRMWARE_RAID_THESE_DAYS} in the BIOS/EFI, then they'll just be SATA ports.

Now, based on that manual, you'll need a pair of miniSAS-to-4-SATA cables, but those are pretty common. 

>>  and that the SFP+ ports will run with 10 Gb/s optics.

That one's a little harder to say for sure, but I'm 95+% sure that they will.

-Ravi (rpokala@)