Abstract

This document lists errata items for FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE, +containing significant information discovered after the release or +too late in the release cycle to be otherwise included in the +release documentation. This information includes security +advisories, as well as news relating to the software or +documentation that could affect its operation or usability. An +up-to-date version of this document should always be consulted +before installing this version of FreeBSD. +

This errata document for FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE will be maintained +until the release of FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE.

FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE Hardware Notes

The FreeBSD Documentation +Project

+ +

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction +
2. Supported Processors and +System Boards +
3. Supported +Devices

1. Introduction

This document contains the hardware compatibility notes for +FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE. It lists the hardware platforms supported by +FreeBSD, as well as the various types of hardware devices (storage +controllers, network interfaces, and so on), along with known +working instances of these devices.

2. Supported Processors and +System Boards

This section provides some architecture-specific information +about the specific processors and systems that are supported by +each architecture. +

2.1. amd64

Since mid-2003 FreeBSD/amd64 has supported the AMD64 +(“Hammer”) and Intel® EM64T architecture, and is now one of the +Tier-1 platforms (fully supported architecture), which are expected +to be Production Quality with respects to all aspects of the +FreeBSD operating system, including installation and development +environments. +

Note that there are two names for this architecture, AMD64 (AMD) +and Intel EM64T (Extended Memory 64-bit Technology). 64-bit mode of +the two architectures are almost compatible with each other, and +FreeBSD/amd64 should support them both. +

As of this writing, the following processors are supported: +

+
AMD Athlon™64 +(“Clawhammer”). +
+
AMD Opteron™ +(“Sledgehammer”). +
+
All multi-core Intel® +Xeon™ processors except +Sossaman have EM64T support. +
+
The single-core Intel® +Xeon™ processors “Nocona”, +“Irwindale”, “Potomac”, +and “Cranford” have EM64T support. +
+
All Intel® Core 2 (not Core Duo) +and later processors +
+
All Intel® Pentium® D processors +
+
Intel® Pentium® 4s and Celeron Ds using the +“Cedar +Mill” core have EM64T support. +
+
Some Intel® Pentium® 4s and Celeron Ds using the +“Prescott” core have EM64T support. See +the Intel Processor Spec Finder for the definitive answer +about EM64T support in Intel processors.

Intel® EM64T is an extended +version of IA-32 (x86) and different from Intel® IA-64 (Itanium) architecture, which +FreeBSD/ia64 supports. Some Intel®'s +old documentation refers to Intel® +EM64T as “64-bit +extension technology” or “IA-32e”. +

Both Uniprocessor (UP) and Symmetric Multi-processor (SMP) +configurations are supported. +

In many respects, FreeBSD/amd64 is similar to FreeBSD/i386, in +terms of drivers supported. Generally, drivers that already +function correctly on other 64-bit platforms should work.

2.2. i386

FreeBSD/i386 runs on a wide variety of “IBM PC +compatible” machines. Due to the wide range of +hardware available for this architecture, it is impossible to +exhaustively list all combinations of equipment supported by +FreeBSD. Nevertheless, some general guidelines are presented here. +

Almost all i386™-compatible +processors with a floating point unit are supported. All +Intel® processors beginning with the +80486 are supported, including the 80486, Pentium®, Pentium® Pro, Pentium® II, Pentium® III, Pentium® 4, and variants thereof, such as the +Xeon™ and Celeron® processors. All i386™-compatible AMD processors are also +supported, including the Am486®, +Am5x86®, K5, AMD-K6® (and variants), AMD Athlon™ (including Athlon-MP, +Athlon-XP, Athlon-4, and Athlon Thunderbird), and AMD Duron™ processors. The AMD Élan +SC520 embedded processor is supported. The Transmeta Crusoe is +recognized and supported, as are i386™-compatible processors from Cyrix and +NexGen. +

There is a wide variety of motherboards available for this +architecture. Motherboards using the ISA, VLB, EISA, AGP, and PCI +expansion buses are well-supported. There is some limited support +for the MCA (“MicroChannel”) expansion bus used in +the IBM PS/2 line of PCs. +

Symmetric multi-processor (SMP) systems are generally supported +by FreeBSD, although in some cases, BIOS or motherboard bugs may +generate some problems. Perusal of the archives of the FreeBSD symmetric multiprocessing mailing list +may yield some clues. +

FreeBSD will take advantage of SMT (Symmetric MultiThreading, +also known as HyperThreading on Intel® CPUs) on the supported CPUs. The +GENERIC kernel which is installed by +default will automatically detect the additional logical +processors. The default FreeBSD scheduler recognizes processor +topology on the system and selects logical and physical processors +to obtain optimal performance. The +smp(4) manual page +has more details. +

FreeBSD will take advantage of Physical Address Extensions (PAE) +support on CPUs that support this feature. A kernel with the +PAE feature enabled will detect memory +above 4 gigabytes and allow it to be used by the system. This +feature places constraints on the device drivers and other features +of FreeBSD which may be used; consult the +pae(4) manual page +for more details. +

FreeBSD will generally run on i386-based laptops, albeit with +varying levels of support for certain hardware features such as +sound, graphics, power management, and PCCARD expansion slots. +These features tend to vary in idiosyncratic ways between machines, +and frequently require special-case support in FreeBSD to work +around hardware bugs or other oddities. When in doubt, a search of +the archives of the FreeBSD laptop computer mailing list may be useful. +

Most modern laptops (as well as many desktops) use the Advanced +Configuration and Power Management (ACPI) standard. FreeBSD +supports ACPI via the ACPI Component Architecture reference +implementation from Intel®, as +described in the +acpi(4) manual page. +The use of ACPI causes instabilities on some machines and it may be +necessary to disable the ACPI driver, which is normally loaded via +a kernel module. This may be accomplished by adding the following +line to /boot/device.hints: +

+hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
+

Users debugging ACPI-related problems may find it useful to +disable portions of the ACPI functionality. The +acpi(4) manual page +has more information on how to do this via loader tunables. +

ACPI depends on a Differentiated System Descriptor Table (DSDT) +provided by each machine's BIOS. Some machines have bad or +incomplete DSDTs, which prevents ACPI from functioning correctly. +Replacement DSDTs for some machines can be found at the DSDT section of the ACPI4Linux project +Web site. FreeBSD can use these DSDTs to override the DSDT provided +by the BIOS; see the +acpi(4) manual page +for more information.

2.3. ia64

Currently supported processors are the Itanium® and the +Itanium® 2. +

Supported chipsets include: +

+
HP zx1 +
+
Intel® 460GX +
+
Intel® E8870

Both Uniprocessor (UP) and Symmetric Multi-processor (SMP) +configurations are supported. +

Most devices that can be found in or are compatible with ia64 +machines are fully supported. The notable exception is the VGA +console. The FreeBSD support for VGA consoles is at this time too +much based on PC hardware and not all ia64 machines have chipsets +that provide sufficient PC legacy support. As such +syscons(4) can not be +enabled and the use of a serial console is required.

2.4. pc98

NEC PC-9801/9821 series with almost all i386™-compatible processors, including +80486, Pentium®, Pentium® Pro, Pentium® II, and variants. All i386™-compatible processors by AMD, Cyrix, +IBM, and IDT are also supported. +

NEC FC-9801/9821 series, and NEC SV-98 series (both of them are +compatible with PC-9801/9821 series) should be supported. +

EPSON PC-386/486/586 series, which are compatible with NEC +PC-9801 series are supported. +

High-resolution mode is not supported. NEC PC-98XA/XL/RL/XL^2, +and NEC PC-H98 series are supported in normal (PC-9801 compatible) +mode only. +

Although there are some multi-processor systems (such as +Rs20/B20), SMP-related features of FreeBSD are not supported yet. +

PC-9801/9821 standard bus (called C-Bus), PC-9801NOTE expansion +bus (110pin), and PCI bus are supported. New Extend Standard +Architecture (NESA) bus (used in PC-H98, SV-H98, and FC-H98 series) +is not supported.

2.5. powerpc

All Apple PowerPC machines with built-in USB are supported, as +well a limited selection of non-Apple machines, including KVM on +POWER7 +

SMP is supported on all systems with more than 1 +processor.

2.6. sparc64

This section describes the systems currently known to be +supported by FreeBSD on the Fujitsu SPARC64® and Sun UltraSPARC® platforms. +

SMP is supported on all systems with more than 1 processor. +

When using the GENERIC kernel, +FreeBSD/sparc64 systems not equipped with a framebuffer supported +by the +creator(4) (Sun +Creator, Sun Creator3D and Sun Elite3D) or +machfb(4) (Sun PGX +and Sun PGX64 as well as the ATI Mach64 chips found onboard in for +example Sun Blade™ 100, +Sun Blade™ 150, +Sun Ultra™ 5 and +Sun Ultra™ 10) driver +must use the serial console. +

If you have a system that is not listed here, it may not have +been tested with FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE. We encourage you to try it +and send a note to the FreeBSD SPARC porting mailing list with your results, +including which devices work and which do not. +

The following systems are fully supported by FreeBSD: +

+
Naturetech GENIALstation 777S +
+
Sun Blade™ 100 +
+
Sun Blade™ 150 +
+
Sun Enterprise™ 150 +
+
Sun Enterprise™ 220R +
+
Sun Enterprise™ 250 +
+
Sun Enterprise™ 420R +
+
Sun Enterprise™ 450 +
+
Sun Fire™ B100s +(support for the on-board NICs first appeared in 8.1-RELEASE) +
+
Sun Fire™ V100 +
+
Sun Fire™ V120 +
+
Sun Netra™ t1 100/105 +
+
Sun Netra™ T1 AC200/DC200 +
+
Sun Netra™ t 1100 +
+
Sun Netra™ t 1120 +
+
Sun Netra™ t 1125 +
+
Sun Netra™ t 1400/1405 +
+
Sun Netra™ 120 +
+
Sun Netra™ X1 +
+
Sun SPARCEngine® Ultra AX1105 +
+
Sun SPARCEngine® Ultra AXe +
+
Sun SPARCEngine® Ultra AXi +
+
Sun SPARCEngine® Ultra AXmp +
+
Sun SPARCEngine® CP1500 +
+
Sun Ultra™ 1 +
+
Sun Ultra™ 1E +
+
Sun Ultra™ 2 +
+
Sun Ultra™ 5 +
+
Sun Ultra™ 10 +
+
Sun Ultra™ 30 +
+
Sun Ultra™ 60 +
+
Sun Ultra™ 80 +
+
Sun Ultra™ +450

The following systems are partially supported by FreeBSD. In +particular the fiber channel controllers in SBus-based systems are +not supported. However, it is possible to use these with a SCSI +controller supported by the +esp(4) driver (Sun +ESP SCSI, Sun FAS Fast-SCSI and Sun FAS366 Fast-Wide SCSI +controllers). +

+
Sun Enterprise™ 3500 +
+
Sun Enterprise™ +4500

Starting with 7.2-RELEASE, sparc64 systems based on Sun +UltraSPARC® III and beyond are also +supported by FreeBSD, which includes the following known working +systems: +

+
Sun Blade™ 1000 +
+
Sun Blade™ 1500 +
+
Sun Blade™ 2000 +
+
Sun Blade™ 2500 +
+
Sun Fire™ 280R +
+
Sun Fire™ V210 +
+
Sun Fire™ V215 +(support first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE) +
+
Sun Fire™ V240 +
+
Sun Fire™ V245 +(support first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE) +
+
Sun Fire™ V250 +
+
Sun Fire™ V440 +(support for the on-board NICs first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and +8.0-RELEASE) +
+
Sun Fire™ V480 +(501-6780 and 501-6790 centerplanes only, for which support first +appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, other centerplanes might +work beginning with 8.3-RELEASE and 9.0-RELEASE) +
+
Sun Fire™ V880 +
+
Sun Fire™ V890 +(support first appeared in 7.4-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, non-mixed +UltraSPARC® IV/IV+ +CPU-configurations only) +
+
Netra™ 20/Netra™ T4

The following Sun UltraSPARC® +systems are not tested but believed to be also supported by +FreeBSD: +

+
Sun Fire™ V125 +
+
Sun Fire™ V490 +(support first appeared in 7.4-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, non-mixed +UltraSPARC® IV/IV+ +CPU-configurations only)

Starting with 7.4-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, sparc64 systems based +on Fujitsu SPARC64® V are also +supported by FreeBSD, which includes the following known working +systems: +

+
Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER® +250

The following Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER® +systems are not tested but believed to be also supported by +FreeBSD: +

+
Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER® 450 +
+
Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER® 650 +
+
Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER® +850

3. Supported +Devices

This section describes the devices currently known to be +supported by FreeBSD. Other configurations may also work, but +simply have not been tested yet. Feedback, updates, and corrections +to this list are encouraged. +

Where possible, the drivers applicable to each device or class +of devices is listed. If the driver in question has a manual page +in the FreeBSD base distribution (most should), it is referenced +here. Information on specific models of supported devices, +controllers, etc. can be found in the manual pages. +

Note:

The device lists in this +document are being generated automatically from FreeBSD manual +pages. This means that some devices, which are supported by +multiple drivers, may appear multiple times.

3.1. Disk Controllers

[amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, sparc64] IDE/ATA controllers +(ata(4) +driver) +

[pc98] IDE/ATA controllers (wdc driver) +

+
On-board IDE controller

[i386,ia64,amd64] Controllers supported by the +aac(4) driver +include: +

+
Adaptec AAC-364 +
+
Adaptec RAID 2045 +
+
Adaptec RAID 2405 +
+
Adaptec RAID 2445 +
+
Adaptec RAID 2805 +
+
Adaptec RAID 3085 +
+
Adaptec RAID 31205 +
+
Adaptec RAID 31605 +
+
Adaptec RAID 5085 +
+
Adaptec RAID 51205 +
+
Adaptec RAID 51245 +
+
Adaptec RAID 51605 +
+
Adaptec RAID 51645 +
+
Adaptec RAID 52445 +
+
Adaptec RAID 5405 +
+
Adaptec RAID 5445 +
+
Adaptec RAID 5805 +
+
Adaptec SAS RAID 3405 +
+
Adaptec SAS RAID 3805 +
+
Adaptec SAS RAID 4000SAS +
+
Adaptec SAS RAID 4005SAS +
+
Adaptec SAS RAID 4800SAS +
+
Adaptec SAS RAID 4805SAS +
+
Adaptec SATA RAID 2020SA ZCR +
+
Adaptec SATA RAID 2025SA ZCR +
+
Adaptec SATA RAID 2026ZCR +
+
Adaptec SATA RAID 2410SA +
+
Adaptec SATA RAID 2420SA +
+
Adaptec SATA RAID 2610SA +
+
Adaptec SATA RAID 2620SA +
+
Adaptec SATA RAID 2810SA +
+
Adaptec SATA RAID 2820SA +
+
Adaptec SATA RAID 21610SA +
+
Adaptec SCSI RAID 2020ZCR +
+
Adaptec SCSI RAID 2025ZCR +
+
Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S +
+
Adaptec SCSI RAID 2130S +
+
Adaptec SCSI RAID 2130SLP +
+
Adaptec SCSI RAID 2230SLP +
+
Adaptec SCSI RAID 2200S +
+
Adaptec SCSI RAID 2240S +
+
Adaptec SCSI RAID 3230S +
+
Adaptec SCSI RAID 3240S +
+
Adaptec SCSI RAID 5400S +
+
Dell CERC SATA RAID 2 +
+
Dell PERC 2/Si +
+
Dell PERC 2/QC +
+
Dell PERC 3/Si +
+
Dell PERC 3/Di +
+
Dell PERC 320/DC +
+
HP ML110 G2 (Adaptec SATA RAID 2610SA) +
+
HP NetRAID 4M +
+
IBM ServeRAID 8i +
+
IBM ServeRAID 8k +
+
IBM ServeRAID 8s +
+
ICP RAID ICP5045BL +
+
ICP RAID ICP5085BL +
+
ICP RAID ICP5085SL +
+
ICP RAID ICP5125BR +
+
ICP RAID ICP5125SL +
+
ICP RAID ICP5165BR +
+
ICP RAID ICP5165SL +
+
ICP RAID ICP5445SL +
+
ICP RAID ICP5805BL +
+
ICP RAID ICP5805SL +
+
ICP ICP5085BR SAS RAID +
+
ICP ICP9085LI SAS RAID +
+
ICP ICP9047MA SATA RAID +
+
ICP ICP9067MA SATA RAID +
+
ICP ICP9087MA SATA RAID +
+
ICP ICP9014RO SCSI RAID +
+
ICP ICP9024RO SCSI RAID +
+
Legend S220 +
+
Legend S230 +
+
Sun STK RAID REM +
+
Sun STK RAID EM +
+
SG-XPCIESAS-R-IN +
+
SG-XPCIESAS-R-EX +
+
AOC-USAS-S4i +
+
AOC-USAS-S8i +
+
AOC-USAS-S4iR +
+
AOC-USAS-S8iR +
+
AOC-USAS-S8i-LP +
+
AOC-USAS-S8iR-LP

[i386,pc98,amd64] The +adv(4) driver +supports the following SCSI controllers: +

+
AdvanSys ABP510/5150 +
+
AdvanSys ABP5140 +
+
AdvanSys ABP5142 +
+
AdvanSys ABP902/3902 +
+
AdvanSys ABP3905 +
+
AdvanSys ABP915 +
+
AdvanSys ABP920 +
+
AdvanSys ABP3922 +
+
AdvanSys ABP3925 +
+
AdvanSys ABP930, ABP930U, ABP930UA +
+
AdvanSys ABP960, ABP960U +
+
AdvanSys ABP542 +
+
AdvanSys ABP742 +
+
AdvanSys ABP842 +
+
AdvanSys ABP940 +
+
AdvanSys ABP940UA/3940UA +
+
AdvanSys ABP940U +
+
AdvanSys ABP3960UA +
+
AdvanSys ABP970, ABP970U +
+
AdvanSys ABP752 +
+
AdvanSys ABP852 +
+
AdvanSys ABP950 +
+
AdvanSys ABP980, ABP980U +
+
AdvanSys ABP980UA/3980UA +
+
MELCO IFC-USP (PC-98) +
+
RATOC REX-PCI30 (PC-98) +
+
@Nifty FNECHARD IFC-USUP-TX (PC-98)

[i386,pc98,amd64] The +adw(4) driver +supports SCSI controllers including: +

+
AdvanSys ABP940UW/ABP3940UW +
+
AdvanSys ABP950UW +
+
AdvanSys ABP970UW +
+
AdvanSys ABP3940U2W +
+
AdvanSys ABP3950U2W

[i386] The +aha(4) driver +supports the following SCSI host adapters: +

+
Adaptec AHA-154xB +
+
Adaptec AHA-154xC +
+
Adaptec AHA-154xCF +
+
Adaptec AHA-154xCP +
+
Adaptec AHA-1640 +
+
Adaptec AHA-174x in 154x emulation mode +
+
DTC 3290 SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode +
+
Tekram SCSI controllers in 154x emulation mode

[i386] The +ahb(4) driver +supports the following SCSI host adapters: +

+
Adaptec AHA-1740 +
+
Adaptec AHA-1742 +
+
Adaptec AHA-1740A +
+
Adaptec AHA-1742A

The +ahc(4) driver +supports the following SCSI host adapter chips and SCSI controller +cards: *** DIFF OUTPUT TRUNCATED AT 1000 LINES ***

FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE Errata

The FreeBSD +Project

1. Introduction

2. Security +Advisories

3. Open +Issues

4. Late-Breaking +News

FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE Hardware Notes

The FreeBSD Documentation +Project

1. Introduction

2. Supported Processors and +System Boards

2.1. amd64

2.2. i386

2.3. ia64

2.4. pc98

2.5. powerpc

2.6. sparc64

3. Supported +Devices

Note:

3.1. Disk Controllers