From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 18 08:30:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EA1E16A41F for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:30:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost1.sentex.ca (smarthost1.sentex.ca [64.7.153.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF7C43D48 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:30:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from pumice3.sentex.ca (pumice3.sentex.ca [64.7.153.26]) by smarthost1.sentex.ca (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j9I8UKHP090714 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 04:30:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by pumice3.sentex.ca (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j9I8UKce076811; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 04:30:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simian.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j9I8UIuJ015332 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 04:30:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <6.2.3.4.0.20051018042810.0942b708@64.7.153.2> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.3.4 Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 04:30:23 -0400 To: Brett Glass , stable@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20051017215302.07669a20@lariat.org> References: <200510152346.RAA20742@lariat.net> <6.2.3.4.0.20051017202509.0869bc58@64.7.153.2> <6.2.5.6.2.20051017195314.080f90f8@lariat.org> <6.2.3.4.0.20051017215901.045afa88@64.7.153.2> <6.2.5.6.2.20051017215302.07669a20@lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 64.7.153.18 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 64.7.153.26 Cc: Subject: Re: 6.0 release date and stability X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:30:22 -0000 At 11:56 PM 17/10/2005, Brett Glass wrote: >At 08:13 PM 10/17/2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: > >>>One thing we're looking at doing is deploying some single-core AMD64s. >>>Some of the motherboards use the NVidia NForce chipsets, so we >>>need to know if the nve driver works >> >>I have seen lots of problem reports with the nve. A board that >>works well for us and fits nicely in a 2U (probably with the right >>heat sink a 1U) is the ECS 480M. >>(http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?DetailID=506&MenuID=90&LanID=0) >> >>It uses the ATI chipset. Disk and NIC are supported. Onboard NIC >>is a Realtek (rl driver) which is pretty bug / problem free. > >Realtek? (Gack... Wheeze....) As I understand it, those are the >chips with such a badly thought out DMA architecture that >data has to be copied between buffers within the kernel even though >the chipset does DMA. The NIC does just fine for most people in most applications. If you have the need for network intense apps, put the NIC in of choice. This is just what is built in on the MB. >>Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 >>CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ (1999.78-MHz >>686-class CPU) >> Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x20fb1 Stepping = 1 >>Features=0x178bfbff >> Features2=0x1 >> AMD Features=0xe2500800 >> AMD Features2=0x3 >> Multicore: 2 physical cores > >How come the kernel is reporting that an AMD chip has HTT? Is this a bug? Hyper Transport, not threading. ---Mike >--Brett