From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 17 21:11:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6662516A41F for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:11:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ghelmer@palisadesys.com) Received: from magellan.palisadesys.com (magellan.palisadesys.com [192.188.162.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07A5443D46 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:11:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ghelmer@palisadesys.com) Received: from [172.16.1.108] (cetus.palisadesys.com [192.188.162.7]) (authenticated bits=0) by magellan.palisadesys.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7HLBJiA098426; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:11:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ghelmer@palisadesys.com) Message-ID: <4303A7F7.5050408@palisadesys.com> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:11:19 -0500 From: Guy Helmer User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Long References: <42D66D84.9010701@palisadesys.com> <42D68EDA.7050808@mullet.se> <43036A03.2030708@palisadesys.com> <43039D1E.8070209@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <43039D1E.8070209@samsco.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Palisade-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Palisade-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: ghelmer@palisadesys.com Cc: Martin Nilsson , freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Supermicro H8DAR-8 motherboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:11:26 -0000 Scott Long wrote: > Guy Helmer wrote: > >> Martin Nilsson wrote: >> >>> Guy Helmer wrote: >>> >>>> Has anyone on the list tried the new Supermicro H8DAR-8 or related >>>> motherboards for Opterons? If so, any issues? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> I have a H8DAE running in a test-box before we start selling them. >>> >>> So far I have ony found one problem: >>> It is impossible to boot FreeBSD/i386 with the 1U IPMI card, the >>> kernel panics when loading the keyboard driver. This does not happen >>> with FreeBSD/amd64. I haven't tested how well the IPMI card works in >>> FreeBSD, there may be problems with the bge driver. >>> >>> Other than that I really like the board. If you have any more >>> questions I'll be happy to answer them. >>> >> We received the H8DAR-8 unit a little over a week ago with dual >> Opteron 275s and it has been running well since. I didn't have any >> problem installing FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1, and I ran "make -j12 >> buildworld" continuously on it over a weekend. It finally crashed on >> an sbfree call, but I'd chalk that up to BETA1. It's been solid >> under a lighter load since. I like the board and I'm glad Supermicro >> was able to cram it into a 1U case :-) >> >> Guy >> > > Do you have any crash data on the panic? Unfortunately, we haven't > perfected the 'self fixing beta release', so we rely on good reports > to get bugs fixed manually =-) > > Scott I'll have to build a kernel with the debugging features to get a useful backtrace (if I can make it happen again with the current BETA-2 sources). I'll try to get it started tomorrow. Guy -- Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Principal System Architect Palisade Systems, Inc.