Monthly Specification Update Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing
Documentation Changes
1. Updating information for usable/accessible memory for BMC
video/graphic display functions for the onboard Server Engine*
LLC Pilot II* video controller
Problem Current description does not provide information for usable and accessible
memory for the controller
Status Will be fixed in next revision of the Technical Product Specification
Workaround Intel
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S5500BC Server Board support Server Engine* LLC Pilot II* Controller
with 64 MB DDR2 memory. 8MB is usable/accessible memory for iBMC
video/graphic display functions. The graphics controller internally has access to
larger memory for the internal operations. The 32MB memory reported by the
new driver (WDM20080228.19663_R2.zip) is the attached memory. Attached
memory can be 32MB or greater but only 8MB is accessible for display
functions. With 8MB, the iBMC/G200e can only support max resolution of
1600x1000@16bit.