OMG.. this Sunday i will start working on Shift.. after my validation today..8am to 8pm…On friday is my NCLP exam.. oh.. my head full of UNIX Command now..how about SLES… hahaha…dont mix it up..dont close the YAST… use the rcxxxx …xxxx is service…dont forget about the syslog.ng… troubleshoot the user permission access.
My last project at Intel already success DQ45CB, DQ45CB SYSTEM & DG41Ty
This is my First SLED/SLES Project at Intel DG35EC
I do the reading yesterday to the Intel Press Release News. The now Intel will stop to recruit the employee for now. I think in Malaysia still stable. Intel make more market for Atom.
Intel
Intel’s Fourth-Quarter Business Below Expectations
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 12, 2008 – Intel Corporation today announced that fourth-quarter business will be below the company’s previous outlook. The company now expects fourth-quarter revenue to be $9 billion, plus or minus $300 million, lower than the previous expectation of between $10.1 billion and $10.9 billion. Revenue is being affected by significantly weaker than expected demand in all geographies and market segments. In addition, the PC supply chain is aggressively reducing component inventories.
The company’s expectation for fourth-quarter gross margin is now 55 percent plus or minus a couple of points, lower than the previous expectation of 59 percent plus or minus a couple of points, primarily due to lower revenue and other charges associated with the weaker-than-expected demand environment. Spending (R&D plus MG&A) is expected to be approximately $2.8 billion in the fourth quarter, lower than the previous expectation of approximately $2.9 billion, primarily due to lower revenue- and profit-related spending. For the full year, spending is expected to be approximately $11.4 billion, lower than the previous expectation of approximately $11.5 billion.
All other expectations are unchanged.
Status of Business Outlook
Today’s announcement replaces the update previously scheduled for Dec. 4. From the close of business on Nov. 28 until publication of the company’s fourth quarter results on Jan. 15, 2009, Intel will observe a “Quiet Period” during which the Business Outlook disclosed in the company’s press releases and filings with the SEC should be considered to be historical, speaking as of prior to the Quiet Period only and not subject to an update by the company.
Risk Factors
The above statements and any others in this document that refer to plans and expectations for the fourth quarter, the year and the future are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Many factors could affect Intel’s actual results, and variances from Intel’s current expectations regarding such factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements. Intel presently considers the following to be the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the corporation’s expectations.
- Current uncertainty in global economic conditions pose a risk to the overall economy as consumers and businesses may defer purchases in response to tighter credit and negative financial news, which could negatively affect product demand and other related matters. Consequently, demand could be different from Intel’s expectations due to factors including changes in business and economic conditions, including conditions in the credit market that could affect consumer confidence; customer acceptance of Intel’s and competitors’ products; changes in customer order patterns including order cancellations; and changes in the level of inventory at customers.
- Intel’s results could be affected by the timing of closing of acquisitions and divestitures.
- Intel operates in intensely competitive industries that are characterized by a high percentage of costs that are fixed or difficult to reduce in the short term and product demand that is highly variable and difficult to forecast. Revenue and the gross margin percentage are affected by the timing of new Intel product introductions and the demand for and market acceptance of Intel’s products; actions taken by Intel’s competitors, including product offerings and introductions, marketing programs and pricing pressures and Intel’s response to such actions; Intel’s ability to respond quickly to technological developments and to incorporate new features into its products; and the availability of sufficient supply of components from suppliers to meet demand.
- The gross margin percentage could vary significantly from expectations based on changes in revenue levels; product mix and pricing; capacity utilization; excess or obsolete inventory; variations in inventory valuation, including variations related to the timing of qualifying products for sale; manufacturing yields; changes in unit costs; impairments of long-lived assets, including manufacturing, assembly/test and intangible assets; and the timing and execution of the manufacturing ramp and associated costs, including start-up costs.
- Expenses, particularly certain marketing and compensation expenses, vary depending on the level of demand for Intel’s products, the level of revenue and profits, and impairments of long-lived assets.
- Intel is in the midst of a structure and efficiency program that is resulting in several actions that could have an impact on expected expense levels and gross margin.
- The tax rate expectation is based on current tax law and current expected income. The tax rate may be affected by the jurisdictions in which profits are determined to be earned and taxed; changes in the estimates of credits, benefits and deductions; the resolution of issues arising from tax audits with various tax authorities, including payment of interest and penalties; and the ability to realize deferred tax assets.
- The recent financial crisis affecting the banking system and financial markets and the going concern threats to investment banks and other financial institutions have resulted in a tightening in the credit markets, a low level of liquidity in many financial markets, and extreme volatility in fixed income, credit and equity markets. There could be a number of follow-on effects from the credit crisis on Intel’s business, including insolvency of key suppliers resulting in product delays; inability of customers to obtain credit to finance purchases of our products and/or customer insolvencies; counterparty failures negatively impacting our treasury operations; increased expense or inability to obtain short-term financing of Intel’s operations from the issuance of commercial paper; and increased impairments from the inability of investee companies to obtain financing. Gains or losses from equity securities and interest and other could also vary from expectations depending on gains or losses realized on the sale or exchange of securities; gains or losses from equity method investments; impairment charges related to debt securities as well as equity and other investments; interest rates; cash balances; and changes in fair value of derivative instruments. The current volatility in the financial market
s and overall economic uncertainty increases the risk that the actual amounts realized in the future on our debt and equity investments will differ significantly from the fair values currently assigned to them.
- The majority of our non-marketable equity investment portfolio balance is concentrated in companies in the flash memory market segment, and declines in this market segment or changes in management’s plans with respect to our investments in this market segment could result in significant impairment charges, impacting gains/losses on equity investments and interest and other.
- Intel’s results could be impacted by adverse economic, social, political and physical/infrastructure conditions in the countries in which Intel, its customers or its suppliers operate, including military conflict and other security risks, natural disasters, infrastructure disruptions, health concerns and fluctuations in currency exchange rates.
- Intel’s results could be affected by adverse effects associated with product defects and errata (deviations from published specifications), and by litigation or regulatory matters involving intellectual property, stockholder, consumer, antitrust and other issues, such as the litigation and regulatory matters described in Intel’s SEC reports.
A detailed discussion of these and other factors that could affect Intel’s results is included in Intel’s SEC filings, including the report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended Sept. 27, 2008.
Today is my last day at intel as Pencacai Linux.. Yesterday we all went out for farewell lunch at Pizza Hut.. but we took only one pic hahahaa… But i think something… every farewell lunch i wear the same tshirt.. that farewell shirt… hahaha… Then we also got the photoshot at DH room.. DWES Team.. Bye Bye Intel / NCS / DWES
Remember on my previous post regarding the e1000e driver on linux the solution is disable the CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE. I got the info from LKML i hope that later no more problem like this because it will break all the hardware. Here i cut out the articles that post by Steven Rostedt
While debugging the e1000e corruption bug with Intel, we discoveredtoday that the dynamic ftrace code in mainline is the likely source ofthis bug.
For the stable kernel we are providing the only viable fix patch: labelingCONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE as broken. (see the patch below)
We will follow up with a backport patch that contains the fixes. But sincethe fixes are not a one liner, the safest approach for now is todisable the code in question.
The cause of the bug is due to the way the current code in mainlinehandles dynamic ftrace. When dynamic ftrace is turned on, it alsoturns on CONFIG_FTRACE which enables the -pg config in gcc that placesa call to mcount at every function call. With just CONFIG_FTRACE thiscauses a noticeable overhead. CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE works to ease thisoverhead by dynamically updating the mcount call sites into nops.
The problem arises when we trace functions and modules are unloaded.The first time a function is called, it will call mcount and the mcountcall will call ftrace_record_ip. This records the calling site andstores it in a preallocated hash table. Later on a daemon willwake up and call kstop_machine and convert any mcount callers intonops.
The evolution of this code first tried to do this without the kstop_machineand used cmpxchg to update the callers as they were called. But Iwas informed that this is dangerous to do on SMP machines if anotherCPU is running that same code. The solution was to do this withkstop_machine.
We still used cmpxchg to test if the code that we are modifying isindeed code that we expect to be before updating it - as a finalline of defense.
But on 32bit machines, ioremapped memory and modules share the sameaddress space. When a module would load its code into memory and executesome code, that would register the function.
On module unload, ftrace incorrectly did not zap these functions fromits hash (this was the bug). The cmpxchg could have saved us in mostcases (via luck) - but with ioremap-ed memory that was exactly the wrongthing to do - the results of cmpxchg on device memory are undefined.(and will likely result in a write)
The pending .28 ftrace tree does not have this bug anymore, as a general pushtowards more robustness of code patching, this is done differently: we do notuse cmpxchg and we do a WARN_ON and turn the tracer off if anything deviatesfrom its expected state. Furthermore, patch sites are statically identifiedduring build time so there's no runtime discovery of dynamic code areasanymore, and no room for code unmaps to cause the hash to become out of date.
We believe the fragility of dynamic patching has been sufficientlyaddressed in the development code via the static patching method, but furthersuggestions to make it more robust are welcome.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner ---kernel/trace/Kconfig | 3 ++-1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)Index: linux-compile.git/kernel/trace/Kconfig===================================================================--- linux-compile.git.orig/kernel/trace/Kconfig 2008-10-02 10:18:49.000000000 -0400+++ linux-compile.git/kernel/trace/Kconfig 2008-10-15 17:29:34.000000000 -0400@@ -103,7 +103,8 @@ config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER all switching of tasks.
config DYNAMIC_FTRACE- bool "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically"+ bool "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically (BROKEN)"+ depends on BROKENdepends on FTRACEdepends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACEdefault y
Intel currently provided to the public the patch to avoid the nvram issues for e1000e driver. Working with kernel 2.6.27..
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njc1OQ
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/1/368
Warning for the e1000e driver on Intel NIC.. Who using the chip below plz dont install Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 6, SLES 11.1 BETA, OpenSuse 11.1 Beta. It will make the physical damage on the NIC chip. Beware of this kernel 2.6.27
Bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/263555
Here is the list of the Chip that effected: plz check your system using lspci and lsmod command to check the driver and chip using for your on board
Source: episteme.arstechnica.com
- 8086:1049 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection (Centrino Pro notebooks made since 2007)
- 8086:104a 82566DM Gigabit Network Connection (vPro desktops made since 2006)
- 8086:104b 82566DC Gigabit Network Connection (some desktops made since 2006)
- 8086:104c 82562V 10/100 Network Connection (some desktops made since 2006)
- 8086:104d 82566MC Gigabit Network Connection (notebooks made since 2007)
- 8086:105e PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Network Connection
- 8086:105f PRO/1000 PF Dual Port Server Adapter
- 8086:1060 PRO/1000 PB Dual Port Server Connection
- 8086:107d PRO/1000 PT Server Adapter
- 8086:107e PRO/1000 PF Server Adapter
- 8086:107f PRO/1000 PB Server Connection
- 8086:108b PRO/1000 PM Network Connection (82573V integrated)
- 8086:108c PRO/1000 PM Network Connection (82573E integrated)
- 8086:1096 PRO/1000 EB Network Connection with I/O Acceleration (servers since 2006)
- 8086:1098 PRO/1000 EB Backplane Connection with I/O Acceleration (servers since 2006)
- 8086:109a PRO/1000 PL Network Connection
- 8086:10a4 PRO/1000 PT Quad Port Server Adapter
- 8086:10a5 PRO/1000 PF Quad Port Server Adapter
- 8086:10b9 PRO/1000 PT Desktop Adapter
- 8086:10ba PRO/1000 EB1 Network Connection with I/O Acceleration (servers since 2007)
- 8086:10bb PRO/1000 EB1 Backplane Connection with I/O Acceleration (servers since 2007)
- 8086:10bc PRO/1000 PT Quad Port LP Server Adapter
- 8086:10bd 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection (vPro desktops since 2007)
- 8086:10bf 82567LF Gigabit Network Connection (desktops since 2008)
- 8086:10c0 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection
- 8086:10c2 82562G-2 10/100 Network Connection
- 8086:10c3 82562GT-2 10/100 Network Connection
- 8086:10c4 82562GT 10/100 Network Connection
- 8086:10c5 82562G 10/100 Network Connection
- 8086:10cb 82567V Gigabit Network Connection (desktops since 2008)
- 8086:10cc 82567LM-2 Gigabit Network Connection
- 8086:10cd 82567LF-2 Gigabit Network Connection
- 8086:10ce 82567V-2 Gigabit Network Connection
- 8086:10d5 Gigabit PT Quad Port Server ExpressModule
- 8086:10d9 82571EB Dual Port Gigabit Mezzanine Adapter
- 8086:10da 82571EB Quad Port Gigabit Mezzanine Adapter
- 8086:10f5 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection
- 8086:294c 82566DC-2 Gigabit Network Connection (desktops since 2007)
Totally this week very pack for me…damm a lot of urgent and important task to be done ASAP.
Especially waiting for the next release Ubuntu 8.10 and RHEL 5.3. I have a lot of article and idea to write here but dont have time..hahaha.. i need a little bit of rest..hahaha
Mobo/Driver/Patch/Graphic/ dam… a lot of job…
Quick Update:
Next project maybe VMWARE ESX with 450GB SAS X 15
Merdeka – what is Merdeka?
Hari Merdeka (Independence Day) is a national day of Malaysia commemorating the independence of the Federation of Malaya from British colonial rule. In a wider context, it is to celebrate the formation of Malaysia.
Source: Wikipedia
Merdeka Wish:
- Get Independence from Windows XP workstation at office to use the Linux Workstation
the problem is Windows Exchange (MAIL) unable to communicate with the Linux Mail Client..
dammit
- Completed my NCLP exam after Aidilfitri
- Get better Job
Intel announced the new processor “Nehalem“
i’m not sure about the price.. i think maybe quite high… for the extreme edition…
- Two, four, or eight cores
- 45 nm manufacturing process
- Integrated memory controller supporting DDR3 SDRAM and between one and six memory channels[citation needed]
- Integrated graphics processor (IGP) located off-die, but in the same CPU package[5]
- A new point-to-point processor interconnect, the Intel QuickPath Interconnect, replacing the legacy front side bus
- Simultaneous multithreading, which enables two threads per core. Simultaneous multithreading has not been present on a consumer Intel processor since 2006 with the Pentium 4 and Pentium EE. Unlike the SMT implementations on the Pentium 4 and the Atom, SMT on Nehalem is referred to as ‘MTT’.[6]
- Native (monolithic, i.e. all processor cores on a single die) quad- and octo-core (8) processors[7]
- The following caches:
- 32 KB L1 instruction and 32 KB L1 data cache per core
- 256 KB L2 cache per core
- 2-3 MB L3 cache per core shared by all cores
- 33% more in-flight micro-ops than Conroe[8]
- Second-level branch predictor and second-level Translation Lookaside Buffer[8]
- Modular blocks of components such as cores that can be added and subtracted for varying market segments
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 11, 2008 – Intel Corporation announced today that desktop processors based on the company’s upcoming new microarchitecture (codenamed “Nehalem”) will be formally branded “Intel® Core™ processor.” The first products in this new family of processors, including an “Extreme Edition” version, will carry an “i7″ identifier and will be formally branded as “Intel® Core™ i7 processor.” This is the first of several new identifiers to come as different products launch over the next year.
Products based on the new microarchitecture will deliver high performance and energy efficiency. This “best of both worlds” approach is expected to extend Intel’s processor leadership in future mobile, desktop and server market segments.
“The Core name is and will be our flagship PC processor brand going forward,” said Sean Maloney, Intel Corporation executive vice president and general manager, Sales and Marketing Group. “Expect Intel to focus even more marketing resources around that name and the Core i7 products starting now.”
The Intel Core processor brand name has gained broad awareness, preference, and market momentum over the past several years. The Intel Core name remains the logical choice for Intel’s latest family of processors. The Intel Core i7 processor brand logo will be available for high-performance desktop PCs with a separate black logo for Intel’s highest-end “Extreme Edition.” Intel will include processor model numbers to differentiate each chip.
Initial products based on this microarchitecture are expected to be in production in the fourth quarter of this year. These processors will feature Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology, also known as simultaneous multi-threading, and are capable of handling eight software “threads” on four processor cores.
Source: Intel
Thanks to Intel coz bring this technology to us
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