From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 08:38:26 2005 Return-Path: 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 927A416A4CE; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:38:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2582243D4C; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:38:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1F8cO2F062179; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:38:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j1F8cOi0062178; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:38:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:38:23 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Jonathan A. Dama" Message-ID: <20050215083823.GA61934@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20050214161959.1FDC343D39@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20050214101303.R13953@carver.gumbysoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:38:26 -0000 On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 05:47:27PM -0800, Jonathan A. Dama wrote: > FreeBSD/amd64 is not in my opinion not actually a stable tier 1 quality > release under these configurations, too many problems remain--especially > in regards to ia32 emulation. It is not required for a Tier-1 platform to have 32-bit support. Our UltraSparc platform does not have 32-bit support. Nor does any other of our 64-bit platforms. > We also have these boards, I've found them unusable under > FreeBSD/5.3-STABLE with 8GB of RAM--other qualities appear to work okay. > But I even saw some infrequent problems with 6GB. This problem is of course valid. > This is a really lamentable situation. We've been a primarily FreeBSD > shop for 10 years now and for the past 4 years or so a pure FreeBSD shop. > Switching to linux on just these machines has been quite the headache but > I'm holding on to the hope that FreeBSD/amd64 will shape up. FreeBSD/amd64 will only get better with your bug reports, testing, and feedback. I searched the GNATS PR database and only saw you've submitted 2 PR's for something we don't claim to really support (32-bit binaries on 64-bit OS). Please submit a PR for the Broadcom and 8GB issues. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)