From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 10 20:28:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3C8716A4CE for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 20:28:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10FA343D4C for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 20:28:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iBAKS4nf037096; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 21:28:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iBAKS4we090347; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 21:28:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iBAKS3iQ090346; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 21:28:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wb) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 21:28:03 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: "Greg A. Woods" Message-ID: <20041210202803.GI90137@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FYI, no-go with booting FreeBSD-5.3 on AlphaServer ES40 X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 20:28:06 -0000 On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 08:21:35PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote.. > I was just trying to take a chance on testing the bge(4) driver from > FreeBSD and so tried booting the latest release on my client's ES40. > > Unfortunately even if it had not panic'ed I wouldn't have got the root > filesystem mounted as the bge(4) driver doesn't even seem to be a > default in the GENERIC kernel, which is pretty silly given that it the > driver for one of the more common GigE cards supplied by DEC/Compaq/HP, > e.g. the DEGXA-TX..... Looks like there are some problems with other > drivers too, but of course I don't know how serious they are. > > Maybe this "boot -v" output will help someone get it further along. > > Note that NetBSD does boot and run quite well on the system so long as > the ohci driver is omitted from the kernel and so long as none of the > IDE devices are accessed (or their driver is also omitted). The only > only problem is that both NetBSD's bge(4) and wm(4) drivers have rather > poor GigE performance on this system (once their minor bugs are fixed), > apparently because we have too much memory installed in it (and it's > only at half capacity!). What good is an alpha if you can't put more > than 4GB in it! ;-) FreeBSD does not even support 4GB so don't moan... :-P > Perhaps omitting ochi and atapci et al would help FreeBSD boot on the > ES40 as well? For the very near term I can try netbooting other kernels That is not the reason. > for testing. Note I'm not subscribed to the list though. I tested FreeBSD on ES40 some releases back and it worked OK. > real memory = 17172619264 (16377 MB) But surely not on 16G RAM. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org