From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 2 19:43:27 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D733C106564A for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 19:43:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A63C48FC13 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 19:43:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5477546B8C; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 15:43:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (smtp.hudson-trading.com [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 743148A01D; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 15:43:25 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, gljennjohn@googlemail.com Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 15:43:14 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/7.3-CBSD-20100819; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <20101102201844.230f7972@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20101102201844.230f7972@ernst.jennejohn.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201011021543.14754.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:43:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.3 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=4.2 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD/amd64 Project -- motherboards Call For Update X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:43:27 -0000 On Tuesday, November 02, 2010 3:18:44 pm Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 17:52:25 +0000 > Piotr Kudzin wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > There is a list of MBs (amd64) supported by FreeBSD: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html > > > > I'd like to see an update, how newest releases of FBSD handles recent > > desktop and server solutions. Release Notes often lists hardware as > > supported, and it works, but not always as it should. I'd like to see your > > opinions, what and how good or bad works. > > > > Good luck with this. > > I submitted a PR almost 2 years ago and it was closed with this > response: > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > State-Changed-By: brueffer > State-Changed-When: Fri Oct 30 20:19:34 CET 2009 > State-Changed-Why: > The mainboard list has been removed, as it does not serve a useful > purpose anymore nowaways. Nontheless, thank you for your submission! > > That's why the most recent entries are for a release which is already > several years old. If we aren't maintaining the list we should just remove it. I do think the list would be mostly pointless at this time as most motherboards should work fine, at least the support is at the same level as i386 where we do not have a similar board list. -- John Baldwin