From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Sep 14 9:53:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de (ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEAD537B424; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:53:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE (ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.54]) by ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8EGuBS13265; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:56:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:56:11 +0200 (CEST) From: "O. Hartmann" To: Ignacio Cristerna Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: RE: TYAN Thunder 2500-80 and FreeBSD 4.1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Ignacio Cristerna wrote: Hello. Well, I think this problem is definitely concernig the SMP list AND hardware list, because both parts are involved. I think there are a lot out here which want to simply INSTALL a FreeBSD on a special box, not aware of the kind of hardware they are using. Maybe questions concerning a special combination of hardware, like SCSI controllers, RAID controllers or in conjunction with a special SMP able mainboard are special - or those, who have those combinations are not aware of these combinations. Well, sometimes I feel angry about this behavoiur, but I realized, that development runs much faster than we can obtain special answers and most out here tend to use the step in development. Watch out how many are asking for SMP-K7 systems based on AMDs 760 chipset ... Well, but you're right in pointing out some misbehaviours of the "list". In my special case, I will see how well FreeBSD will work with the ordered mainboard and I will post a little, stupid report how it works - or not. :>I´ve got the same feelings concerning the smp list. I mean, if this is not :>the proper place to ask about hardware compatibility list, then where can I :>ask this question. I ask about a certain motherboard/scsi card combination :>and never got an answer about that. If this is the policy of the list, then :>maybe we should be told so. :> :> :> Gruss O. Hartmann ------------------------------------------------------------------- ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de Klimadatenserver des IPA, Universitaet Mainz Netzwerk- und Systembetreuung To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message