From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 3 15:10:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40DA916A4BF for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:10:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from opiate.soulwax.net (CPE0010a702d464-CM000039ae486b.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [63.138.27.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BB1343F75 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:10:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chopra@opiate.soulwax.net) Received: by opiate.soulwax.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8787265; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:09:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:09:08 -0400 From: Munish Chopra To: Adriaan de Groot Message-ID: <20031003220908.GA18802@opiate.soulwax.net> References: <20031003201032.45A962A900@canning.wemm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 as an X desktop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 22:10:13 -0000 On 2003-10-03 23:51 +0200, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Thanks for the informative post. So amd64 is headed for tier-1 status? That's been my understanding for a while. [...] > > > No, we do not have a driver for the onboard nvidia ethernet on the nforce3, > > but some of the boards I've seen have a realtek 8110 based gigabit ethernet > > (no driver) or a 3com/marvell gigabit chip (I dont know what this chip is). > > This sounds like "there is no Gb LAN support at all anywhere". > I don't know if it helps, but several of the reference (pre-production) boards shipped with the 3Com stuff on-board. Most, if not all from what I hear, production boards seem to be shipping with the Realtek chip. This has apparently caused headaches here and there. > > The ATA driver doesn't recognize some of the SATA or RAID hardware on these > > boards, but I've been able to use plain IDE drives no problem. > > OK, I guess that's a start. I can't tell whether the Promise 20378 RAID > controller is supported from the FBSD x86 HW support page -- that'd > provide 2 SATA ports already. And the LAN controller seems to be 3Com, > that can hardly be a problem. > I think Promise has been pretty generous to Soeren so far by providing him SATA hardware to test with. You might want to check with him for details. Good luck. -- Munish Chopra