From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Dec 4 10:56:51 2000 From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 10:56:50 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE86F37B400 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 10:56:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeppo.feral.com (IDENT:mjacob@zeppo [192.67.166.71]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA16659 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 10:56:54 -0800 Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 10:56:49 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha 4100 Status In-Reply-To: <20001204104411.A45344@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 09:28:42AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > Alpha 4100s appear to be (at least somewhat) working in -current now. > > Not sure what that means. JHB and I debate if that means it runs and > boots, but not with a Qlogic SCSI card in the machine. Can you clarfiy > if I update our 4100 to -current that we will have the same functionality > we have at PRE_SMPNG? It, and 4.2, works on the 4100 with one QLogic card configured. I use the isp_disable environment variable to disable the others. Sometimes the system boots with them (bot PRE_SMPNG and -current) fine, sometimes it panics. It may be some other (non-SMPNG) bug because it also appears in 4.2. Remember, though, that this is early days. I have the two MCPCIA 4100 working here at Feral (and you should see that power meter spin!). I have yet to try the four MCPCIA 4100s at NASA/Ames (since I cannot power cycle them remotely). My point of what I'm saying is to be cautious- things appear to work in single unit cases. The entire FreeBSD alpha release, and, frankly, all of FreeBSD, is not a tested or qualified release, except as we used to joke at Sun ("Our software is *extensively* field tested! After a year in the field, we know what doesn't work!"). Therefore, rather than saying, as we have in the past, "4100s work now!", I will say, "mine does". Until such time as we have full cooperation from the vendor such that we can make and execute a full test plan for supported models, that is a more prudent approach. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message