From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 30 19:46:06 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33D9116A403 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:46:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4C9113C46A for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:46:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost.corp.yahoo.com (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2UJk3xm058759; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:46:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: "George Kontostanos" Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:45:48 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200703301040.37285.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703301545.48686.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:46:03 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.3/2971/Fri Mar 30 13:34:58 2007 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP BL460c X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:46:06 -0000 On Friday 30 March 2007 01:41:47 pm George Kontostanos wrote: > On 3/30/07, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > On Friday 30 March 2007 09:46:53 am George Kontostanos wrote: > > > Greetings everyone, > > > > > > We are about to proceed to a major upgrade for our servers. I was > > looking > > > at the new HP ProLiant BL460c witch according to the technical specs at: > > > > > > > http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliant-bl/c-class/460c/specifications.htmlcomes > > > with the embedded NC370i network controller. However, after a lot of > > > goggling I found out that there are compatibility problems with that > > > controller. Any suggestions are kindly welcomed. > > > > If it's the bce(4) part with SerDes RELENG_6 will support it, though 6.2 > > doesn't. 6.3 will include fully support however. > > > > -- > > John Baldwin > > > It is the : > > Embedded NC370i Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter Network Processor > Broadcom 5706 > > I saw that HP ships that adapter only in the AMD platform which I'm > considering of purchasing. > Any ideas about that ? That should work with bce(4) in 6.x-stable. -- John Baldwin