Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:14:00 +0200 From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What kind of MotherBoard is better for FreeBsd and linux? Message-ID: <1118434440.7847.5.camel@hood.oook.cz> In-Reply-To: <200506102201.38517.groot@kde.org> References: <99389684.20050610003512@molecon.ru> <20050610092126.L32309@zoraida.natserv.net> <200506102201.38517.groot@kde.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Adriaan de Groot píše v pá 10. 06. 2005 v 22:01 +0200: > On Friday 10 June 2005 15:22, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Oleg Rusanov wrote: > > > What kind of MotherBoard for Amd64 OPteron 252 or 264 processors is > > > better for FreeBsd and linux? > > > > Did you check http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html for > > input? > > I think the motherboards list could use a redesign so that it carries _more_ > information. Right now one man's "Fully Functional" is another man's "Useless > Junk" because there's not enough detail on the page to decide what's going > on. That's what Notes field is for. > Case in point: I just got an Asus A8N-SLI (an accident on the fscking > university administration where my order for an A8V goes through 6 layers of > clueless bureaucracy to get to the store -- I guess there was some Greek > interpretation somewhere along the line) which is nForce4 based. Now, for > 5-stable users, you get: > > 1) Won't boot 5.3-R amd64 > 2) In 5.3-R i386, is missing SATA RAID ('cause it's a Sil3114 which isn't > supported on any platform as RAID, but does manage to squeak by as a regular > SATA controller) and missing the onboard NIC (since nve is 6-CURRENT) > > Unfortunately I didn't have my 5.4-R CDs with me to try it with either. Still, > this board is listed as "fully functional" on the motherboards page, while it > clearly isn't. Maybe for the original reporter who wants neither SATA RAID > nor networking it's fine. There were a huge progress between 5.3-RELEASE and 5.4-RELEASE, and submitter claims his results with post-5.4 -STABLE. I will happily update the entry if you can provide feedback based on last release, ie. 5.4-RELEASE. 5.3-RELEASE just don't cut it anymore, sorry. -- Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz> <pav@FreeBSD.org> You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCqfSIntdYP8FOsoIRAmyJAJ9g+lkuA6L9xMGdVXJnOkyuOsNJ4QCgscWI Gvv5VLHQTwPwtuZXo5jwtSc= =47l6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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