Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 08:54:10 -0500 From: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" <john.cagle@hp.com> To: "David Landgren" <david@landgren.net>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dennis_Kj=E6r_Jensen?= <signout@signout.dk>, <obrien@freebsd.org>, "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Holger Kipp" <Holger.Kipp@alogis.com>, "Will Saxon" <WillS@housing.ufl.edu>, "Don Bowman" <don@sandvine.com>, "Wilko Bulte" <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: HP ProLiant DL360G3 rebuttal... ;-) Message-ID: <C50AB9511EE59B49B2A503CB7AE1ABD10440E500@cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net>
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First of all, thank you to everone for their responses on this topic. I = had no intention of instigating such a long thread when I sent the first = email, and I apologize that this post is off topic for -current. That said, I guess this would be a good time to let the cat out of the = bag: Over the past 6 months, we (the HP ProLiant software team) have been = working with Peter Wemm and Paul Saab to develop a basic ProLiant health = driver for FreeBSD. The new driver leverages portions of our Unix and = Linux health drivers. We will be making this available soon to the = larger FreeBSD community as a beta test. The driver will not be = officially supported or warrantied by HP, but we will do our best to = make sure it works and is useful. I will send an email to -current to = announce its availability. Thanks again to Peter and Paul. Without their help this would not have = been possible! Please send any followup questions directly to my email address. Thanks, John -------------------------------- John Cagle john.cagle@hp.com Principal Member Technical Staff Industry Standard Servers Hewlett-Packard Company > -----Original Message----- > From: Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)=20 > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 8:31 PM > To: obrien@freebsd.org > Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: HP ProLiant DL360G3 rebuttal... ;-) >=20 >=20 > FreeBSD is not currently an officially supported operating=20 > system, but we're doing as much as we can to ensure that=20 > FreeBSD (-stable & > -current) will install and run well on ProLiant servers. We=20 > also provide some technical support to the maintainers of the=20 > bge and ciss drivers. >=20 > To provide official "tier-one" support (drivers for advanced=20 > features, management agents, deployment software, regression=20 > testing, customer support, services, etc.) would be very=20 > costly, and, at this time, the FreeBSD market share numbers=20 > don't support that level of investment. >=20 > Regards, > John > -------------------------------- > John Cagle john.cagle@hp.com > Principal Member Technical Staff > Industry Standard Servers > Hewlett-Packard Company >=20 > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David O'Brien [mailto:obrien@freebsd.org] > > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 7:01 PM > > To: Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) > > Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: HP ProLiant DL360G3 rebuttal... ;-) > >=20 > >=20 > > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 04:12:55PM -0500, Cagle, John > > (ISS-Houston) wrote: > > > FWIW, some of the benefits of running a health driver (on a > > supported > > > OS) are: > >=20 > > Is FreeBSD a supported OS? > >=20 > > -- > > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) > >=20
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