From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 30 16:33:37 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A3D516A41B for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:33:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bofh@terranova.net) Received: from tog.net (tog.net [216.89.226.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D44BE13C45B for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:33:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bofh@terranova.net) Received: from [216.89.228.170] (host-216-89-228-170.wireless.terranova.net [216.89.228.170]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tog.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 734C129B62E for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:33:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <47503B5D.2050408@terranova.net> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:33:33 -0500 From: Travis Mikalson Organization: TerraNovaNet Internet Services User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 (Windows/20070809) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <604474.65019.qm@web63908.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <604474.65019.qm@web63908.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: Any successful installs on a Broadcom HT1000 chipset? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:33:37 -0000 Barney Cordoba wrote: > --- Travis Mikalson wrote: > >> Barney Cordoba wrote: >>> --- Mike Tancsa wrote: >>> >>>> At 02:26 AM 11/29/2007, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: >>>> >>>>> May be here is different HW revisions? You have >> an >>>> old revision and >>>>> now people with this bug have a new revision? >>>>> I don't see in the this thread any verbose dmesg >> or >>>> pciconf outputs. >>>>> So, people, who have problems and who don't have >>>> it, can you show >>>>> your `pciconf -l`? >>>> My board works well and has since the 6.1 days >> > >>> I think we've established that 6.x works and 7.x >>> doesn't. >>> >>> Barney >> Not mine, I'm afraid. >> >> See post from yesterday where I tried 6.2 and 6.3 on >> my Tyan S3950 and >> it worked poorly. >> >> Not sure what the major difference between one >> HT1000 board and another >> could be, but mine seems to be in the most-afflicted >> category. I count >> myself lucky that it works as well as it does with >> RELENG_7 so long as I >> avoid the PCI-X slot or the on-board SATA. > > It seems to me it makes more sense to use a different > MB than avoiding the slot and not using SATA. One of > the attractions of the HT1000 is the SATA performance. I have three of them already so.. I'd like them to work. I consider the broken status temporary and the SiI3114 controllers a temporary workaround. And of course I'd like FreeBSD to work well for everybody else on this platform. > Are you sending Soren a MB, or what is the status of > that? Yes, I corresponded with Søren privately and I am going to send him a Tyan S3950 kit, he was unable to reproduce the issue on his specific HT1000-based hardware. -- TerraNovaNet Internet Services - Key Largo, FL Voice: (305)453-4011 x101 Fax: (305)451-5991 http://www.terranova.net/ ---------------------------------------------- Life's not fair, but the root password helps.