Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:49:20 +0100 From: Daniel Rock <freebsd@deadcafe.de> To: jpeg@thilelli.net Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun U20 supported, fully/partially working... or not at all? Message-ID: <437CC2A0.4010006@deadcafe.de> In-Reply-To: <14668.145.248.192.30.1132230145.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> References: <44611.145.248.192.30.1132154034.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> <437BA7B1.5060200@deadcafe.de> <14668.145.248.192.30.1132230145.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net>
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Julien Gabel schrieb: > Certainly, even if the FreeBSD report's feedback is not very optimist > on this particular mainboard (mainly because some of the main components > are not _yet_ tested, as PCI-E or onboard Gig-E). Onboard Ethernet should work. It is just plain NForce4 Ethernet. I haven't tested it on this mobo, but on a Tyan S2895. On this machine nve does work - as long I don't have memory beneath 4GB. I have to clip the kernel to a maximum of 4GB (via MAXMEM config variable), otherwise nve doesn't work at all. With this workaround I can usually transfer some 100 GBytes before nve problems come up again. > Not having a serial port may be a problem. Is it possible to use the > USB port to act a serial for console access? I don't think so. But I don't know if and how Sun customized the standard S2865 BIOS. > Since we certainly will use an other ethernet card on bus PCI, the last > point is annoying but not for the moment (we doesn't use Gig-E yet, just > 100Mbps (as with nve(4), it seems)). nve is unstable not only with GigE, but (at least for me) also with only 100Mb Daniel
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