Re: net6501 (Red Light Of Death) debugging

Chris Cappuccio <[email protected]> Thu, 31 Jan 2019 06:26:53 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.soekris.technical
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Harald Welte [[email protected]] wrote:
> hi chirs,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 06:37:16PM -0800, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
> 
> > Solder up a new CPU and you will likely have a working unit...
> 
> Do you know something that I don't?  From following the list archives
> and other resources, it seemed that nobody really knew what was going
> on.  Sure, there was some speculation (I would almost call it conspiracy
> theory) about this bug being similar to the "Intel C2000" bug that hit
> Cisco and others.  However, net6501 uses E6xx..
> 

Yeah it's just a half assed guess based on the known issues with the C2000
line and the determination from Soekris that the boards are unrepairable.