From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 9 03:17:01 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 B3F4C16A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 03:17:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.distrust.net (mail.distrust.net [69.93.230.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4935243D54 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 03:17:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dsze@alumni.uwaterloo.ca) Received: from mail.distrust.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.distrust.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j293FRT8081969 for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:15:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dsze@alumni.uwaterloo.ca) Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:15:28 -0600 (CST) To: Scott Long From: David Sze In-Reply-To: <422E4986.6080409@samsco.org> References: <4224F19C.2090207@rackspace.com> <6.2.1.2.2.20050301234017.03e93e68@pop3.tellurian.com> <4225CCE4.3080304@rackspace.com> <20050308235853.GA81150@mail.distrust.net> <422E4986.6080409@samsco.org> Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.2.20050308215231.0537dff0@mail.distrust.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.83/757/Tue Mar 8 17:14:36 2005 on mail.distrust.net X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: Art Mason cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD be installed on DellPowerEdge2800 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:17:01 -0000 At 05:55 PM 08/03/2005 -0700, Scott Long wrote this to All: >>David Sze wrote: >>>On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:25:40AM -0600, Art Mason wrote: >>> >>>Yeah, I cam across that on some mailing list archives, but saw some >>>additional references that this can cause issues with the amr driver. >>>Have you experienced any instability issues with the amr driver and >>>PAE enabled? If not, then I'll give this a shot on one of our lab >>>boxes for testing. Thanks for the suggestion, BTW. >> >>On my 2850 the upper 1GB of RAM cannot be addressed without PAE support >>in the kernel. However, amr in 4.11-RELEASE does indeed seem to have >>trouble with PAE. The result being that with the option in the kernel, >>the root device (ufs:/dev/amrd0s1a) cannot be found. >> >>I backported scottl's amr PAE fixes from RELENG_5; the diffs applied >>cleanly (with offsets). I'm happy to report that my 2850 can now >>address its full 4GB and see its amr volumes. >> >>The diff against 4.11-RELEASE is attached, hopefully someone will be >>willing to commit it to RELENG_4. > >I don't have the cycles to watch after RELENG_4, so I'll have to take >your word that this works. What date is this patch against? I >committed some follow-up fixes last week that are required for >management apps to work (and yes, LSI is getting ready to support >FreeBSD with management apps). The patch is against 4.11-RELEASE, and is just a backport of your commit from Dec. 5th (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-all/2004-December/094923.html). There haven't been any changes to amr since release, so it should apply directly to RELENG_4 as well. I left out the subsequent ioctl fixes and LSI 320-2E support. They look straightforward, but I don't have the software or hardware to test them. If you'd like them in there before committing to RELENG_4, I can take a stab at it and post a new patch.