From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 9 13:19:33 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BC7B16A404 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 13:19:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom.hurst@clara.net) Received: from spork.qfe3.net (spork.qfe3.net [212.13.207.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 293ED13C478 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 13:19:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom.hurst@clara.net) Received: from [81.104.144.87] (helo=voi.aagh.net) by spork.qfe3.net with esmtp (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HPf0N-000281-BD; Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:19:31 +0000 Received: from freaky by voi.aagh.net with local (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HPf0F-000DY0-4p; Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:19:23 +0000 Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 13:19:23 +0000 From: Thomas Hurst To: Vivek Khera Message-ID: <20070309131923.GA50212@voi.aagh.net> Mail-Followup-To: Vivek Khera , FreeBSD Stable References: <0F5570EA-7E34-4971-961F-32DD121F4DF2@khera.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <0F5570EA-7E34-4971-961F-32DD121F4DF2@khera.org> Organization: Not much. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: Thomas Hurst Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: any success with new sun "M2" product variant for X4100 and X2100 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:19:33 -0000 * 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 irqs 0-23 on motherboard ioapic3 irqs 24-47 on motherboard ioapic1 irqs 48-54 on motherboard ioapic2 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/