Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:22:03 -0600 From: Jeff Isaac <cineveggie.lists@gmail.com> To: Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any Update on HP Workstation Support? XW9300 Message-ID: <474D252B.4010003@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54db43990711271701y1560e358odd3d601402cd07b6@mail.gmail.com> References: <EE154AFB-E59F-4CBA-9169-02B496992E40@gmail.com> <54db43990711271701y1560e358odd3d601402cd07b6@mail.gmail.com>
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Bob Johnson wrote: > On 11/27/07, Jeff Isaac <cineveggie.lists@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Greetings All! >> >> I am new to this list (normally hanging out on Freebsd-PPC) and have >> a question regarding some possible hardware support changes in >> FreeBSD 7. I was wondering whether support has been added for the HP >> XW9300 Professional Workstation. 6 would not boot with the problems >> described here: >> >> http://bsd.haofood.net/2006/02/02/freebsd-on-hp-xw/ >> >> > > I have an HP dc7700 that gives the "no smap" error when trying to boot > 7.0-BETA2-amd64, but boots fine with 7.0-BETA3-i386. So your problem > MIGHT be solved for i386, but probably not solved for amd64. I haven't > tried BETA3-amd64 (assuming it exists), but I've seen no suggestion > that this was fixed between betas. > > There is a PR that is related: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=111955 > > - Bob > > Hi Bob! Thanks for getting back to me with this link. These HP systems seem to be tricky for BSD kernels for whatever reason. Is there any way to gently "encourage" this issue to become more important for a potential fix? I know that things like this can be difficult to nail down especially on a programmer's limited and largely unpaid time, but I would be willing to make a small (I am a college student after all) financial contribution to seeing this issue at least more deeply investigated. Short of that is there any Linux distro you could recommend that behaves similarly to FreeBSD in terms of usability since several BSD's seem to have this trouble? Is it worth bugging HP? I see that though the i386 port seems to have fixed this, it appears that it suffers from random panics on our families of machines. Thanks so much for your time and assistance. If I do end up getting another of these machines, I will be more than happy to help in whatever way I can to get them information off of it if the folks working on the port can only tell me how. I'm no CS grad but I do have experience in IT, so hopefully I can find what they'd be looking for :-) Thanks again! - Jeff
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