From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 17 16:44:39 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 10AC116A41F for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:44:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de) Received: from ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (ms-2.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F020943D72 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:44:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de) Received: from r220-1 (r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.31]) by ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IQ300KLFYHZSE@ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de> for hardware@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:44:24 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.3.1]) by r220-1 (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:44:23 +0100 (MET) Received: from bigboss.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (bigspace.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.2]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.3/8.13.3/1) with ESMTP id jAHGiM5s029807; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:44:22 +0100 (MET) Received: from lorien.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de ([137.226.181.92] helo=haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de) by bigboss.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ecms2-0002Qt-00; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:44:22 +0100 Received: by haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 78DC12846F; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:44:22 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:44:22 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer In-reply-to: <437CB030.1040107@samsco.org> To: Scott Long Message-id: <20051117164422.GB1055@unixpages.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=i9LlY+UWpKt15+FH; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE X-PGP-Key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D References: <437BBC51.2030804@rogers.com> <437BBCFD.4000102@samsco.org> <20051117162839.GA1055@unixpages.org> <437CB030.1040107@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 16:44:39 -0000 --i9LlY+UWpKt15+FH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:30:40AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > Christian Brueffer wrote: >=20 > >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= =20 > >>>and 5.4 states: > >>> > >>>--- > >>> > >>>*NOTES*=20 > >>>=20 > >>> > >>> The *hptmv* driver only works on the i386 platform as it requires a= =20 > >>>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 ope= n=20 > >>>source drivers that include the blob for i386 and amd64, as seen here= =20 > >>>http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr1810a.htm on the open source= =20 > >>>driver version 1.12. Also the man page for -CURRENT says that i386 AND= =20 > >>>amd64 is supported. Is there any way that we can update FreeBSDs' 5.x= =20 > >>>and 6.x drivers to this current version? I have a dual Opteron server= =20 > >>>that i would like to run in native mode, but the fact that i have to= =20 > >>>download binary modules, (which don't support 6.0) is a PITA when=20 > >>>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 > > >=20 > Thanks for updating it. It might also be good to note that the driver=20 > _doesn't_ work on i386+PAE. >=20 Done. - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --i9LlY+UWpKt15+FH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDfLNmbHYXjKDtmC0RAjgdAKDVkvqpbqwho1Z0hPpjELlgKMdoGwCfdoqU CgwCTptPJkZD8PwjFa9pBJU= =OJm/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --i9LlY+UWpKt15+FH--