From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 07:09:24 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 47D6916A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 07:09:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBFD543D45 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 07:09:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) j0679Lj32501; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:09:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:09:21 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <30.694ba972.2f0ddd70@aol.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Importance: Normal 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 07:09:24 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Tm4528@aol.com > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 4:17 PM > To: tedm@toybox.placo.com > Cc: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD > > > 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? It's not a question of not having contacts. It's a question of actually defining the problem in a way that a developer can get a fix on it. Currently, this is done with the PR mechanism on FreeBSD.org. Doing a search of this shows only PR i386/72579, which claims FreeBSD 4.X doesen't work at all on this chipset, which is contrary to what the OP was saying. I would assume if the OP actually read the instructions in the handbook about how to go about filing a good bug report that they might possibly get some assistance. Ted