Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 13:19:23 +0000 From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net> To: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: any success with new sun "M2" product variant for X4100 and X2100 Message-ID: <20070309131923.GA50212@voi.aagh.net> In-Reply-To: <0F5570EA-7E34-4971-961F-32DD121F4DF2@khera.org> References: <0F5570EA-7E34-4971-961F-32DD121F4DF2@khera.org>
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* Vivek Khera (vivek@khera.org) wrote:
> Has anyone successfully booted FreeBSD 6 on the new "M2" variants of
> sun's X2100 or X4100 boxes? I have three X4100 original versions that
> works stunningly well (but I don't use the internal disks) with
> FreeBSD 6.1. I was just curious how the new ones work, and the X2100
> seems to fit the bill for what I currently need.
We have a pair of X4100M2's in production right now running 6.2, though
we run a pretty cut-down kernel that lacks USB support. There are some
dmesg warnings related to the IOAPICs but they seem harmless:
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0
cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1
cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 2
cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 3
ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 4
ioapic1: Changing APIC ID to 6
ioapic1: WARNING: intbase 48 !=3D expected base 24
ioapic2: Changing APIC ID to 7
ioapic2: WARNING: intbase 56 !=3D expected base 55
ioapic3: Changing APIC ID to 5
ioapic3: WARNING: intbase 24 !=3D expected base 63
ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
ioapic3 <Version 1.1> irqs 24-47 on motherboard
ioapic1 <Version 1.1> irqs 48-54 on motherboard
ioapic2 <Version 1.1> irqs 56-62 on motherboard
Disks work fine with mpt(4), just as with !M2.
> Also, if anyone knows which ethernet ports they put in that'd be =20
> helpful. I'd avoid them if they had broadcom chips :-(
2 nVidia nForce nve(4)'s and 2 Intel Pro/1000 em(4)'s. Quite a step
back from the quad em(4)'s in !M2's, but 2 usable NIC's should be enough
for most uses.
--=20
Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst
http://hur.st/
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