Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:14:54 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Olivier Mueller <om-lists-bsd@omx.ch> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ? Message-ID: <20061113191454.GB66013@rambler-co.ru> In-Reply-To: <1163442609.10865.59.camel@bigapple.omnis.ch> References: <1163442609.10865.59.camel@bigapple.omnis.ch>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 07:30:09PM +0100, Olivier Mueller wrote: > Hello, > > I will soon get some new servers with more than 4 GB of RAM, and > I am wondering if they will work fine even with the PAE > option activated: are all the required drivers (RAID mfid, bce > on the Dell, ciss0 on the HP) 100% compatible, or should I expect > trouble? > Drivers that are either known to NOT work with PAE or were not tested with PAE are excluded by the PAE config file, you can check there. : 0 edoofus:ttyp2:/sys/i386/conf >egrep 'ciss|mfi|bce' GENERIC PAE : GENERIC:device ciss # Compaq Smart RAID 5* : GENERIC:device mfi # LSI MegaRAID SAS : GENERIC:device bce # Broadcom BCM5706/BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet So it looks like all of them should work fine with PAE. > If you have a working "/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/xxxx" with active > PAE on one of these servers, I'd be interested :) > > Btw, when will we see these new servers listed under: > http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html ? > Or should I use send-pr ? :) > And you absolutely have no option of running FreeBSD/amd64 on them? What a PITA! :-) Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFWMQuqRfpzJluFF4RAp4/AJ90IJFQCFfAnSRLMAgunQEWNuf9VQCgjYBb LQRD6wT7EvO176MHoULL6ts= =ms2q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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