From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 21 19:14:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6308316A4CE for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:14:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4360E43D39 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:14:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9LJEL3h081552; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:14:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i9LJEJqi081550; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:14:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:14:19 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Willem Jan Withagen Message-ID: <20041021191419.GE37500@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <1098341179.52186.7.camel@eirik.unicore.no> <4177884C.7030503@withagen.nl> <1098353001.52186.35.camel@eirik.unicore.no> <41778B74.2040508@withagen.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41778B74.2040508@withagen.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Eirik Oeverby Subject: Re: Weirdness in RELENG_5 on amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:14:25 -0000 On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:12:04PM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > The other story I was told is that Tyan is once in a while sloppy with its > BIOSes. And as such not all revision are of equal quality. > You said the box is far away, so flashing BIOSes is not going to be fun. > And it might even get you in worse shape.... With Opteron being a new platform, you really want to keep up to date on BIOS releases. I would not fear a regression when flashing to the latest. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)