From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 27 16:21:34 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07BCD1065670 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:21:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mij@sshguard.net) Received: from voodoo.publicshout.org (heroin.publicshout.org [81.208.58.150]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4EB6D8FC18 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:21:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 21398 invoked by uid 0); 27 Sep 2010 15:54:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.152?) (michele@sshguard.net@unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 27 Sep 2010 15:54:16 -0000 From: Mij Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:54:50 +0200 Message-Id: <0A590E85-55E2-44E3-B980-F0615F1CF8AB@sshguard.net> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) Subject: FreeBSD 8 on SR1630HGP X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:21:34 -0000 Hello folks, I bought two SR1630HGP systems from Intel recently. Although I couldn't = find information beforehand on FreeBSD compatibility with that hardware, FreeBSD = 8.1-RELEASE appears to run fine on them, and essentially all features is supported (see = below). I took some time to figure out and configure all the hardware available = onboard. Here I'm posting the resulting kernel profile. This is for FreeBSD8 amd64. The kernel config embeds all fundamental drivers, so they must not be = kldloaded as modules. Examples in: ada, hw watchdog, ipmi. Examples out: zfs, lagg. Notes: - the NICs are detected in inverted order: - NIC2 on chassis =3D em0 - NIC1 on chassis =3D em1 - hot plugging is supported ("ada") - IPMI is supported. See sysutils/ipmitool - hardware watchdog is supported: watchdogd will automatically use the = hardware timer - Frequency Scaling is included. Set powerd_enable=3D"YES" in = /etc/rc.conf and save the planet (90W -> 1W) - support for device POLLING is included, enable at convenience = (ifconfig) - HZ is set to 2000 to accommodate firewalling/traffic shaping while = being fairly light on the system Cheers michele=