From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 00:16:59 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B49016A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 00:16:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imo-d06.mx.aol.com (imo-d06.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D71B43D45 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 00:16:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Tm4528@aol.com) Received: from Tm4528@aol.com by imo-d06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id s.30.694ba972 (4418); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 19:16:48 -0500 (EST) From: Tm4528@aol.com Message-ID: <30.694ba972.2f0ddd70@aol.com> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 19:16:48 EST To: tedm@toybox.placo.com MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5116 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 00:16:59 -0000 In a message dated 1/4/05 11:50:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, tedm@toybox.placo.com writes: > None of the new Supermicro hardware I've tried works with Freebsd > 4.10 properly. I've seen that this has been reported by others. > They are all based on the 7520 and 7530 Intel chips. 5.3 works > ok, but a 3.4/800 processor on 5.3 is slower than a 3.06/533 > processor on our old 7502 chipset based system with 4.9. What can > be done? >Donate one of the systems to a FreeBSD kernel developer. > >Ted Do you really have no contacts at SM or Dell? What kind of a development org has no contacts with major vendors?