PC7-FESTIVAL
CompactPCI® PlusIO CPU Card • Intel® XEON® E3 v6 Processor
The PC7-FESTIVAL is a rich featured high performance 4HP/3U CompactPCI® PlusIO CPU board, equipped with an Intel® Xeon® E3 familiy mobile workstation processor for demanding applications. For scalability, the PC7-FESTIVAL is also available with an Intel® Core™ processor.
The PC7-FESTIVAL front panel is provided with two RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet jacks, two USB 3.0 Type-A receptacles, and two DisplayPort™ connectors. In addition, a third USB Type-C front panel receptacle i available as an option, usable alternatively as (third) DisplayPort.
The powerful Xeon® E3-1500 v6 series processor is accompanied by the CM238 mobile PCH, for a maximum of high speed I/O resources (e.g. PCI Express®, SATA, USB). On-board mass-storage solutions are based on low profile mezzanine expansion cards, which can accommodate up to two M.2 style SSD modules (PCIe® Gen3 x4 and/or SATA 6G). Side cards for an 8HP assembly are also available, providing front I/O and M.2 SSDs.
The PC7-FESTIVAL is equipped with up to 32GB DDR4 RAM with ECC support. Up to 16GB memory-down are provided for rugged applications, and another 16GB are available via the DDR4 ECC SO-DIMM socket.
The backplane connector J1 allows for up to seven CompactPCI® Classic peripheral cards in a system. The J2 connector complies with the CompactPCI® PlusIO standard for high speed rear I/O (fourfold PCIe®, SATA and USB2), or a hybrid CompactPCI® Serial backplane.
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Release Notes for Phoenix UEFI/BIOS Firmware on EKF PC7-FESTIVAL
================================================================This file describes changes, extensions and bug fixes made in Phoenix UEFI/BIOS
for EKF PC7-FESTIVAL. For any further questions contact EKF at:
Email : support[at]ekf.de
Internet : www.ekf.com===================================================================================================================
2023-04-06: UEFI/BIOS release, Build #220 production
– Added Workaround for a special PCI Bridge mounted on CompactPCI bus
Setup (F2): Advanced -> CompactPCI Classic Configuration -> Workaround for PCI Bridge mounted on cPCI bus
Available options: Disabled, 10 ms, 100 ms, 500 ms, 1 s (Default)
The workaround improves detection of certain PCIe devices behind reverse PCI bridges. The setting of this item
does not matter, if no PCI bridge with PCI ID Vendor ID 16DAh and Device ID 000Dh is found in the system.– Added support for PC7E
– Additionally perform a PCI bus reset on CompactPCI if
Setup (F2): Advanced -> Miscellaneous Configuration -> PCI Secondary Bus Reset
is set to Enabled.– Performed a secondary bus reset on all eight possible EKF HSE1 and HSE2 PCIe Root ports if
Setup (F2): Advanced -> Miscellaneous Configuration -> PCI Secondary Bus Reset
is set to Enabled.– Improved support for S48-SSD. If S48-SSD is detected:
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Expansion Board Configuration -> Power Control of M.2 Socket 1/2
Available options: Default (Default), Disabled, Enabled, Power Cycle
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Expansion Board Configuration -> Power Control of USB-C connector
Available options: Default (Default), Disabled, Enabled– Added check of MAC address of Intel Ethernet Controllers of type 82564 and 82574
– Skipped check of MAC address of PCI based Intel Ethernet Controllers (8255x)
– Added command ‘EkfPci’ (alias epci or p) to EFI Shell
– Added command ‘EkfDmpstore’ (alias eds) to EFI Shell
– Added command ‘EkfDateTime’ (alias edt) to EFI Shell
– Extended command ‘cls’ of EFI Shell
– Extended Print function of EFI Shell
– Converted ambiguous date format in EFI Shell and UEFI/BIOS to international date format according to ISO 8601
– Added P82-GBE and S83-P6 in list of EKF detectable boards
– Fixed custom defaults when loading defaults via F9 key
– Added customer-specific Setup Defaults
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2022-10-07: UEFI/BIOS release, Build #218 production
– Fixed a bug which was sometimes observed when calling System Information in Setup
– Adapted Memory strings to EKF CPU boards
Setup [F2]: Main -> System Information -> Memory Device [0|1]– Red LED GP is switched off when rebooting from ACPI sleep state S3
– Switched on red LED GP on OS shutdown for sleep states S4 and S5
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2022-09-19: UEFI/BIOS release, Build #216 production
– Restricted check of PCI Subsystem ID to CPU on-board PCI devices
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2022-09-14: UEFI/BIOS release, Build #214 production
– Added Setup node to skip loading of Option ROMs for Intel Ethernet controller i210
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Network Configuration -> Intel Ethernet i210 Option ROMs
Available options: Disabled (Default), Enabled– Added setup node to allow to ignore UEFI Options ROMs for Intel Ethernet controller i210
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Network Configuration -> Intel Ethernet i210 UEFI Option ROMs
Available options: Ignored (Default), Enabled– Skipped MAC address check for third party boards with Intel Ethernet controller
– Added support for EKF Expansion Boards PCX, PCZ and P82 (normally installed on PlusIO CPUs)
– S48-SSD: A Power Cycle for M.2 connector 1 or connector 2 is now only made if corresponding Power Control is Enabled
– Validate PCI Subsystem ID of all PCI devices with EKF Subsystem Vendor ID
– Added feature to enable or disable call to MEBx
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Management Engine Configuration -> AMT Configuration -> Prohibit call to MEBx
Available options: Disabled, Enabled (Default)– Added customer-specific Setup Defaults
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2022-07-11: UEFI/BIOS release, Build #212 production
– Updated MEBX core and browser with V11.0.0.0012
– Fixed a bug when BIOS detects a P2P bridge with HotPlug capability set
– Corrected ‘Productname’ for SMBIOS type 1
– Added ‘Family’ string for SMBIOS type 1
– Adapted some strings for SMBIOS type 4
– Added SN9-CAPO in list of EKF detectable boards
– Fixed a bug in display of CPU BIST test results
Setup (F2): Advanced -> CPU Configuration -> CPU Miscellaneous Configuration -> BIST (Built-In Self-Test)
Available options: Disabled (Default), Enabled– Added customer-specific Setup Defaults
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2022-06-03: UEFI/BIOS release, Build #210 production
– Validate MAC addresses of all Intel Ethernet controllers
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Network Configuration -> Validate on-board MAC addresses
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Network Configuration -> Validate external MAC addresses
Available options: Disabled, Enabled (Default)– Setup node for Legacy PXE now only controls Option ROM for Intel Ethernet controller NC1 (i219)
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Network Configuration -> Legacy PXE Option ROM
Available options: Disabled (Default), Enabled– Fixed a bug in MAC address validation of Intel i210 Ethernet Controller (NC2) in case
when chipset internal Ethernet controller (NC1) was disabled– Added Setup node to allow to disable Intel Ethernet controller NC2 (i210)
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Network Configuration -> Intel on-board LAN Controller NC2
Available options: Disabled, Enabled (Default)– Added Setup node to skip loading of Option ROMs for Intel Ethernet controller i225
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Network Configuration -> Intel Ethernet i225 Option ROMs
Available options: Disabled (Default), Enabled
Intel i225 options ROMs can be found e.g. on EKF Expansion Board SCJ-VEENA– Added setup item to allow to ignore UEFI Options ROMs for Intel Ethernet controller i225
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Network Configuration -> Intel Ethernet i225 UEFI Option ROMs
Available options: Ignored (Default), Enabled– Suppressed an error message when typing F10 in Setup with installed Expansion Board EKF SCJ-VEENA
– Show installed EKF Expansion Board in Diagnostic Splash screen
– Control I2C access of EKF Expansion Boards
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Expansion Board Configuration -> Control I2C access on Expansion Boards
Available options: Disabled, Enabled (Default)– Validate EEPROM of EKF Expansion Boards. This check can be suppressed with Setup node
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Expansion Board Configuration -> Check for valid EEPROM data on EKF Expansion Board
Available options: Disabled, Enabled (Default)– Added support for EKF S48-SSD
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Expansion Board Configuration -> Power Control of M.2 Socket 1/2
Available options: Default (Default), Disabled, Enabled– Perform a power cycle on M.2 sockets of EKF S48-SSD
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Expansion Board Configuration -> Power Cycle of M.2 Device on Socket 1/2
Available options: Disabled (Default), Enabled– Removed Setup node ‘SATA Test’ if Intel SATA controller is disabled
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Intel SATA/RAID Configuration -> SATA Test Mode– Switched on red LED GP on OS shutdown
– Added Setup node to allow to perform a delay after every PostCode
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Debug Configuration -> Delay after every PostCode
Available options: Disabled (Default), 1 ms, 2 ms, 5 ms, 10 ms, 20 ms, 50 ms– Show debug information on screen on first start after SPI flashing
This feature can be permanently enabled with Setup node
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Debug Configuration -> Send Debug Info to Display
Available options: Disabled (Default), Enabled– Debug information feature can be further controller by these Setup nodes
a) Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Debug Configuration -> Delay after Debug Info
Available options: Disabled, 10 ms, 20 ms (Default), 50 ms, 100 ms, 200 ms, 500 ms, 1 s
b) Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Debug Configuration -> Select number of Debug Info lines
Range: 1-16 lines, Default is one line– Gray out Setup nodes in User mode
– Added customer-specific Setup Defaults
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2022-03-17: UEFI/BIOS release, Build #204 production
– Updated Kaby Lake CPU microcode with version 236 (0xEC)
– Added Setup node to disable Configuration EEPROM Write Protect
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Board Configuration -> Config EEPROM Write Protect
Available options: Disabled, Enabled (Default)
Note: This node is only shown if EEPPROM write accesses are generally allowed.– Added feature to allow to ignore a Custom ID set in EKF Config EEPROM
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Miscellaneous Configuration -> Ignore Custom ID
Available options: Disabled (Default), Enabled
Note: This node can only be selected if a Custom ID is set– Show status of custom ID in Setup Main when temporarily disabled
Setup [F2]: Main -> System Information -> User ID– Added Setup node to skip display of footer string at bottom of diagnostic screen
Setup [F2]: Main -> Boot Features -> Suppress Fx line in diagnostic screen
Available options: Disabled (Default), Enabled– Added customer-specific Setup Defaults
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2022-03-01: UEFI/BIOS release, Build #202 production
– Added customer-specific Setup Defaults
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2022-02-17: UEFI/BIOS release, Build #200 production
– Added support to check Ethernet MAC addresses for integrity
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Network Configuration -> Validate MAC address
Available options: Disabled, Enabled (Default)– Added support to select ACPI Power State
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> ACPI Configuration -> Select ACPI Power State
Available options: Disabled, AC (Default), Battery, CompactPCI– Enabled ACPI AC Adapter device
– Added display of boot counter and boot time (since last reset) in bottom left corner of Bootmenu screen
– Added support for statistical informations about UEFI variables
– Added support for Memory profiles
– Changed the generation of the UUID (Universal Unique ID number)
The new algorithm ensures that the UUID is now really unique (time based version 1).
The UUID is saved in SMBIOS table type 1.– Created NV variable ‘UUID’
This variable is used to simplify access to the board unique ID.– Added debugging configuration form
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Debug Configuration– Added feature to log Boot data
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Debug Configuration -> Boot Logger
Available options: Disabled, Enabled (Default)– Added feature to simulate an empty battery
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Debug Configuration -> Simulate empty Battery
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2021-12-15: UEFI/BIOS release, Build #198 production
– Added feature to perform or to initiate an action if Power-Fail from CompactPCI is asserted
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> ACPI Configuration -> CompactPCI signal Power-Fail
Available options: Disabled (Default), Enabled
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> ACPI Configuration -> Power-Fail minimum assertion time
Available options: Disabled, 5 ms (Default), 50 ms, 500 ms, 5 s
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> ACPI Configuration -> Select Action on Power-Fail
Available options: Red LED GP (Default), OS Warning Msg, OS Shutdown– Added support for ACPI debug function ADBG
– Removed unused ASL code
– Setup node ‘System Date’ is now represented in ISO 8601 format
Setup [F2]: Main -> System Date– Added support for ACPI battery method BIX
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2021-10-11: UEFI/BIOS release, Build #196 production
– Added customer-specific Setup Defaults
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2021-09-13: UEFI/BIOS release, Build #194 production
– Fixed an issue with writable PCI vendor IDs
– Added S48-SSD and SLA-SOLO in list of EKF detectable boards
– Fixed display of garbage in Setup menu ‘Boot’ when more than one Marvell SATA device is enabled as a boot device
– Clarified help for Setup node ‘ME Unconfig on RTC Clear’
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2021-07-30: UEFI/BIOS release, Build #192 production
– Added customer-specific Setup Defaults
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2021-07-07: UEFI/BIOS release, Build #190 production
– Boot support for all Marvell SATA controller is now completely disabled by default.
This speeds up boottime when booting from Intel SATA controller or from a NVMe device.– Time to boot when booting from Marvell 9230 SATA controller can now be significantly reduced by only selecting
the SATA device to boot from. All other SATA devices behind Marvell 9230 SATA controller will be skipped during
AHCI initialization. The feature is controller with this Setup option:
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> SATA Configuration -> Marvell SATA/RAID Configuration -> Marvell 9230 Boot Support PCI Device
Available options: Default (Default), CPU On-board, cPCI Slot [1-4]
Marvell SATA controller on cPCI are available on EKF SD3-GLISS and on EKF SD4-SWEEP.– Added feature to skip unnecessary AHCI Software Resets
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> SATA Configuration -> Marvell SATA/RAID Configuration -> Skip Marvell 9230 AHCI Software Reset
Available options: Disabled, Enabled (Default)– Added feature to select individual SATA devices behind Marvell 9230 SATA controller as boot devices
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> SATA Configuration -> Marvell SATA/RAID Configuration -> Marvell 9230 Boot Support SATA Device
Available options (binary coded): —-, —X (Default), –X- …. XXXX– Added additionally option to select a 3 second delay before SATA HBA initialization
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> SATA Configuration -> Select SATA delay
Available options: Disabled, 10 ms, 30 ms (Default), 100 ms , 300 ms, 1 s, 3 s– Reduced max number of SATA devices behind Marvell 9230 SATA controller to 4 devices.
– Reduced timeout of ATA identify command for Marvell 9230 SATA controller
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2021-06-01: UEFI/BIOS release, Build #188 production
– Added customer-specific Setup Defaults
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2021-05-25: UEFI/BIOS release, Build #186 production
– Added feature to enable or disable different Option ROMs of Marvell SATA controller 9170 and 9230
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> SATA Configuration -> Marvell SATA/RAID Configuration -> Option ROM Support for on-board Marvell 9170
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> SATA Configuration -> Marvell SATA/RAID Configuration -> Option ROM Support for Sideboard Marvell 9170
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> SATA Configuration -> Marvell SATA/RAID Configuration -> Option ROM Support for Marvell 9170 on cPCI
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> SATA Configuration -> Marvell SATA/RAID Configuration -> Option ROM Support for on-board Marvell 9230
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> SATA Configuration -> Marvell SATA/RAID Configuration -> Option ROM Support for Sideboard Marvell 9230
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> SATA Configuration -> Marvell SATA/RAID Configuration -> Option ROM Support for Marvell 9230 on cPCI
Available options: Disabled (Default), Enabled– Support for Marvell AHCI driver is now disabled by default
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> SATA Configuration -> Marvell SATA/RAID Configuration -> Marvell 9170 Boot Support AHCI Driver
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> SATA Configuration -> Marvell SATA/RAID Configuration -> Marvell 9230 Boot Support AHCI Driver
Available options: Disabled (Default), Enabled– Added SCJ-VEENA in list of EKF detectable boards
– IGD Aperture Size: Option 2048 MB can now only be selected if CSM Support is set to NO
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2021-04-20: UEFI/BIOS release, Build #184 production
– Changed RTC default date to 2021-01-01 on RTC error
– Added support for customer-specific Setup Defaults
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2020-11-27: UEFI/BIOS release, Build #182 production
– Added support to control displays attached to Intel graphics device during UEFI or boot phase
Setup [F2]: Advanced -> Graphics Configuration -> Configure Intel Displays
Available options: DP1 only, DP2 only, DP3 only, DP1 + DP2 (Default), DP1 + DP3, DP2 + DP3, None Selected, VBT
This feature supports CSM enabled (Legacy Video BIOS) and CSM disabled (GOP driver).– Updated VBT table for GOP driver to version 2
– Added option to configure PCH UART 0 as a legacy 16550 compatible communication port (COM port)
Setup (F2): Advanced -> UART Configuration -> Control PCH UART0
Available options: Disabled, PCI Mode (Default), ACPI Mode, Legacy Mode
If set to Legacy Mode, an ACPI PNP0501 device is added as a Communications Port in (Windows) Device Manager.– Added option to configure PCH UART 1 as a legacy 16550 compatible communication port (COM port)
Setup (F2): Advanced -> UART Configuration -> Control PCH UART1
Available options: Disabled (Default), PCI Mode, ACPI Mode, Legacy Mode
If set to Legacy Mode, an ACPI PNP0501 device is added as a Communications Port in (Windows) Device Manager.– Added option to allow to disable hardware flow control (RTS/CTS) for PCH UART0
Setup (F2): Advanced -> UART Configuration -> Hardware Flow Control UART0
Available options: Disabled, Enabled (Default)– Added option to allow to disable hardware flow control (RTS/CTS) for PCH UART1
Setup (F2): Advanced -> UART Configuration -> Hardware Flow Control UART1
Available options: Disabled, Enabled (Default)– Changed PCH UART enumeration from one-based to zero-based in Setup
– Renamed ACPI UID for PCH UARTs in non PCI mode
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2020-10-23: UEFI/BIOS release, Build #180 production
– Added support for Secure Boot
Setup [F2]: Security -> Secure Boot Configuration
Setup nodes in Secure Boot Configuration menu allow complete control of Secure Boot keys and other features.
For deeper information read ‘Item Specific Help’ in Secure Boot menu items.– Additionally show Secure Boot status at top of Security menu
Setup [F2]: Security -> UEFI Secure Boot Status -> (Enabled or Disabled)– Added support to control PCH UART 1
Setup (F2): Advanced -> UART Configuration -> Control PCH UART1
Available options: Disabled, PCI Mode (Default), ACPI Mode– Added support to control PCH UART 2
Setup (F2): Advanced -> UART Configuration -> Control PCH UART2
Available options: Disabled (Default), PCI Mode, ACPI Mode– Added a second Opal workaround
Setup (F2): Advanced -> Miscellaneous Configuration -> Opal Workaround
Available options: Disabled (Default), WA 1, WA 2– Small improvements in Security menu
Setup [F2]: Security– Changed some Setup nodes to read-only mode if Setup is called in User mode
– Removed Driver Health Manager from Misc menu
Setup (F2): Misc===================================================================================================================
2020-10-12: UEFI/BIOS release, Build #172 production
– Removed Setup node “Security -> TPM Support”. This node was only used to show or suppress menu “TPM Configuration”.
Menu “TPM Configuration” is now always shown if node “Current Selected TPM Device” is not set to Disabled.
Setup [F2]: Security -> Current Selected TPM Device– Added Opal workaround
Setup (F2): Advanced -> Miscellaneous Configuration -> Opal Workaround
Available options: Disabled (Default), Enabled– Added support for customer-specific Setup Defaults
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2020-09-21: First UEFI/BIOS production release, Build #170
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Ordering Information
| PC7-440D-FESTIVAL |
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| PC7-446D-FESTIVAL |
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| PC7-240D-FESTIVAL |
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| PC7-246D-FESTIVAL |
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| PC7-640D-FESTIVAL |
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| PC7-646D-FESTIVAL |
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| PC7-C72D-FESTIVAL |
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Expansion Modules
Specifications
- CompactPCI® PlusIO (PICMG® CPCI 2.30) System Slot Controller
- Form factor single size Eurocard (board dimensions 100x160mm2)
- Mounting height 3U
- Front panel width 4HP (8HP/12HP assembly with optional mezzanine side card)
- Front panel I/O connectors for typical system configuration (2 x USB3, 2 x DisplayPort, 2 x GbE)
- Backplane communication via CompactPCI® J1 and J2 hard metric connectors
- J1 Connector for PICMG® CompactPCI® 32-Bit Support
- J2 Connector for CompactPCI® PlusIO support (PCIe®, SATA, USB2)
- J2 PlusIO configuration allows for either CompactPCI® Serial backplane usage or rear I/O module attachment
- J2 Connector option available for 64-bit system slot (legacy CompactPCI® 2.0 Classic)
- Side cards and low profile mass storage modules available as COTS and also as custom specific
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