Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 13:45:57 -0400 From: Jim Brown <jpb@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for Content: FreeBSD/ia64 5.1-RELEASE Hardware Notes Message-ID: <20030510174557.GA12876@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> In-Reply-To: <20030510160857.GA24789@intruder.bmah.org> References: <20030510000205.GC7976@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> <20030510020137.GA2188@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030510044232.GA8378@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> <20030510160857.GA24789@intruder.bmah.org>
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* Bruce A. Mah <bmah@freebsd.org> [2003-05-10 12:09]: > If memory serves me right, Jim Brown wrote: > > * Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> [2003-05-09 22:01]: > > > On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 08:02:05PM -0400, Jim Brown wrote: > > > > > > Comments for both Marcel and Jim...thanks for working on this! > > > > > 1 Introduction > > > > > > It's probably a nice gesture to link to the platform home pages. > > I guess we could link directly to the ia64 platform page, rather than > the top-level page for all platforms. Done. > > > > > 2 Supported Processors and Motherboards > > > > > > Processors: > > > Itanium & Itanium 2 > > Other things users might want to know: > > SMP vs. UP? > > What types of consoles are supported (e.g. VGA, serial)? > > > > Motherboards: > > > It's probably a good idea to focus on chipset for now: > > > chipsets: > > > HP zx1 (only on development branch) > > "On development branch" means the P4 branch, right? If so, I'm am > tempted to leave it out of the hardware notes for CVS HEAD, or at > least maybe we should say "Perforce repository". Is this situation > going to change as a result of your blanket commit approval? Check the new text... I don't know about the Perforce repo- is there a URL? > > > > Intel 460GX > > > Intel E8870 > > > > > > > 3 Supported Devices > > > > 3.1 Disk Controllers > > > > > > ATA: Except for the PC chipset embedded ATA controllers, most should > > > work OOTB. > > I wish I knew which ones those were, so we could turn them off. > > > > SCSI: LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 is known to work [mpt(4)] > > > > > > > 3.8 Serial Interfaces > > > > > > Diva Serial [GSP] Multiport UART (development branch only [puc(4)] > > > > > I may have turned sio(4) by mistake in the original version of this > document. If so, we should turn it off now. Done. > > > > > 3.11 USB Devices > > > > > > UHCI and OHCI are supported. > > For UCHI and OHCI you can (probably) just turn on that part of the > hardware notes for ia64. Done. > > > > The UHCI on the "BigSur" seems to have > > > a weird hub attached on both ports which generally makes USB unusable > > > I don't think it's specific to ia64. > > What's "BigSur"? Can we maybe put this in the chipset/motherboard > notes? I found that it's an HP i2000 system. I've worked that in. > > > > This be it, roughly. Thanks, > > > > > > -- > > > Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net > > > > > > > Done. > > > > http://sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net/ia64/article.html > > > > Additional wordsmithing soon. > > Your comments and suggestions are welcome. > > Thanks guys...this is looking good. > > Bruce.
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