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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:25:53 -0700
From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>
To: Elliot Finley <lists@efinley.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM blade servers
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2005/10/25, Elliot Finley <lists@efinley.com>:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug White" <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
> > On Tue, 17 May 2005, Danny Braniss wrote:
> >
> > > as far as i have checked, the IBM and Intel blade server are 'almost'
> > > identical, if so then FreeBSD 5.x works fine with 'Intel SBXL52', but=
 so
> > > far not much success with the EM64 based SBX82.
> >
> > I'm working on the SBX82s right now. I have a workaround that gets them
> > booting.  Finding the root issue will take some more work; its a
> > data-corruption issue.
>
> What is the status on the SBX82s?
>
> Elliot

They work well. There were a couple patches Doug made for the blades
and they're all committed and working. We've got a customer with
several SBX82 blades in a datacenter (and they get hammered _hard_),
two running FreeBSD and two running Windows, and the Windows blades
appear to have more trouble. (But you were expecting that, right?
:-)).

--Devon