Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:26:17 -0800 (PST) From: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> To: Travis Mikalson <bofh@terranova.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any successful installs on a Broadcom HT1000 chipset? Message-ID: <826454.61528.qm@web63913.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <47402ABA.9060209@terranova.net>
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--- Travis Mikalson <bofh@terranova.net> wrote: > Pawel Worach wrote: > > Barney Cordoba wrote: > >> We can't get any flavor of Freebsd 7 to build or > boot > >> successfully on an HT1000 MB. We have 2 distinct > MBs > >> and both have similar problems. > >> > >> I noticed in the linux driver that they have the > >> HT1000 listed in their pci_quirks.c, and have > >> "quirk_disable_all_msi" set for it. I have no > idea > >> what that means, but is FreeBSD doing something > >> similar? I haven't tested linux on this system > yet, > >> but I hope to do so sometime this week. > >> > > > > At the loader(8) prompt set the following two > tunables: > > hw.pci.enable_msix=0 > > hw.pci.enable_msi=0 > > I just tried this and it didn't help I'm afraid. > > In more detail: I hooked up my SATA disk to my > HT1000 motherboard's > onboard SATA controller with those two tunables set > to 0 and my data was > still horribly corrupted quite quickly. It's just as > bad with or without > those tunables set to 0. > > -- > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I've done a bit of research and it seems that this chipset has been ignored for years now by the FreeBSD team. Whats the reasoning for a major chipset used by supermicro and Tyan not being supported after years of deployment? This isn't some obscure chipset we have here. This effects a major pct of opteron systems deployed worldwide. I don't see how Freebsd 7 can be released without this being fixed. It would be a major black eye to the project to say "FreeBSD 7 is released, but BTW, if you have a supermicro or tyan opteron system it won't work at all". Someone was complaining 2 years ago that they didn't have hardware to do the work. Is the FreeBSD project really so poorly funded that they can't get their hands on a $150 motherboard for 2 years? Barney ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ
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