From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 17 16:30:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7932216A41F for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:30:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B87DB43D73 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:30:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.14] (imini.samsco.home [192.168.254.14]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jAHGUetw083641; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:30:40 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <437CB030.1040107@samsco.org> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:30:40 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Brueffer References: <437BBC51.2030804@rogers.com> <437BBCFD.4000102@samsco.org> <20051117162839.GA1055@unixpages.org> In-Reply-To: <20051117162839.GA1055@unixpages.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: Mike Jakubik , hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hptmv support on AMD64 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: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:30:43 -0000 Christian Brueffer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 04:13:01PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > >>Mike Jakubik wrote: >> >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>The man page for the hptmv (HighPoint RocketRAID 182x) drivers, on 6.0 >>>and 5.4 states: >>> >>>--- >>> >>>*NOTES* >>> >>> >>> The *hptmv* driver only works on the i386 platform as it requires a >>>binary >>> blob object from the manufacturer which they only supply for the i386 >>> platform >>>--- >>> >>> >>>This is however not true, at least not anymore. HighPoint provides open >>>source drivers that include the blob for i386 and amd64, as seen here >>>http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr1810a.htm on the open source >>>driver version 1.12. Also the man page for -CURRENT says that i386 AND >>>amd64 is supported. Is there any way that we can update FreeBSDs' 5.x >>>and 6.x drivers to this current version? I have a dual Opteron server >>>that i would like to run in native mode, but the fact that i have to >>>download binary modules, (which don't support 6.0) is a PITA when >>>keeping the system up to date. >>> >>>Thank You. >> >>I updated the hptmv driver to include amd64 support in time for the 6.0 >>release. Have you given it a try yet? >> > > > Unfortunatly the hptmv(4) manpage in RELENG_6 didn't reflect this. I > have just MFCd the respective change to remedy that. Thanks for the > notice, Mike. > > - Christian > Thanks for updating it. It might also be good to note that the driver _doesn't_ work on i386+PAE. Scott