Hardware detritus

Motherboards

Intel DG965WT

• HECI/AMT. First made public back in 2007, the heci driver went into staging as of 2.6.30:

[recombinator](0) $ dmesg | grep -i heci
heci: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
heci: Intel(R) Management Engine Interface - version 5.0.0.31
heci: Copyright (c) 2003 - 2008 Intel Corporation.
heci 0000:00:03.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
heci 0000:00:03.0: setting latency timer to 64
heci: link layer has been established.
heci driver initialization successful.
[recombinator](0) $ 

• "Working with Intel AMT: My first thoughts", a post dated 2009-06-08 on Intel's Software Network, is a good starting point.
• Subversion repository: svn co https://openamt.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/openamt openamt
• I've got some other data on i965 video here

Video

NVIDIA GTS 360M

X support on the GTS 360M is, at this time, an ongoing endeavor.

nvidia proprietary drivers

The 195.36.08 beta drivers introduced support for the GTS 360M, according to the 2010-03-04 changelog. These drivers were, however, pulled by nvidia:

We believe recent NVIDIA UNIX graphics drivers are affected by a recently reported fan speed issue in 195.36.08 and 195.36.03. Until the problem is resolved, we recommend that UNIX users revert to the 190.53 web release, or the 195.30 public beta.

X starts, but is not yet usable. CUDA is fully supported. The framebuffer console is usable, but low resolution by default.

nouveau drivers

Using the nouveau 2.6 tree (booting as 2.6.32 and change) and the 0.0.16 userspace, X starts, but is not yet usable. The framebuffer console (nouveaufb as supplied by the nouveau driver itself) is high resolution by default.

NICs

• DCA support:
  • Intel 82576 "Kawela" (datasheet ver 2.41)
  • Intel 82598 "Oplin" (rebranded as Niagara 2710 among others) (datasheet ver 3.1)
• Identifying your Intel PRO/100, PRO/1000 & 10GbE Network Adapter