I have an Ampere Altra-Max/INGRASYS Yushan Server System running Centos 8 stream.
Because we are a chip manufacteror, we don’t sell end systems, we provide a reference platform that is a starting point for our customers to make a product. This leads to bizarre set of internal versus external names. One thing that you can rely on, however, is the identifier of the processor itself:
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
BogoMIPS : 50.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm lrcpc dcpop asimddp ssbs
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x3
CPU part : 0xd0c
CPU revision : 1
...
TO make this readable, use the utility lscpu:
[root@eng14sys-r
111 ~]# lscpu
Architecture: aarch64
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 80
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-79
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 80
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: ARM
BIOS Vendor ID: Ampere(R)
Model: 1
Model name: Neoverse-N1
BIOS Model name: Ampere(R) Altra(R) Processor
Stepping: r3p1
CPU max MHz: 3000.0000
CPU min MHz: 1000.0000
BogoMIPS: 50.00
L1d cache: 64K
L1i cache: 64K
L2 cache: 1024K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-79
Flags: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm lrcpc dcpop asimddp ssbs
I want to build the latest Linus-repo Linux Kernel and run it on the server. Here’s the steps I went through.
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