From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 21 19:52:38 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 93ED516A4CE for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:52:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from anduin.net (anduin.net [212.12.46.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 597F743D1D for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:52:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ltning@anduin.net) Received: from mailnull by anduin.net with dspam-scanned (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1CKiwI-000Ny4-2i for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:49:34 +0200 Received: from mailnull by anduin.net with spamassassin-scanned (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1CKiwF-000Nxp-L6 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:49:34 +0200 Received: from ranger.anduin.net ([81.0.162.52] helo=[192.168.1.10]) by anduin.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1CKiwA-000Nxf-2U; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:49:26 +0200 In-Reply-To: <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> <20041021191419.GE37500@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eirik_=D8verby?= Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:52:07 +0200 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on anduin.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=7.5 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no version=2.64 Subject: Re: Weirdness in RELENG_5 on amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list 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 19:52:38 -0000 On 21. Oct 2004, at 21:14, David O'Brien wrote: > 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. Funny, I'm going to visit the box next week, so I'll make sure to flash then. Anything else I should do while I'm there? ;) /Eirik > > -- > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) > > > > - Love over Gold -