Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:02:12 +0100 From: "Claus Guttesen" <kometen@gmail.com> To: "John Nielsen" <lists@jnielsen.net> Cc: Martin <list@manuelmartini.it>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de> Subject: Re: Stable on Blade server Message-ID: <b41c75520702230702iadf1f19g464f212fc9f58f5c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200702230947.42074.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <20070223110654.770d3904@DELOREAN.manuelmartini.it> <0a807254b24ef0be5d38e9959401a605@127.0.0.1> <200702230947.42074.lists@jnielsen.net>
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> > > We're 100% FreeBSD-only and i was looking to buy IBM blade servers: can > > > anyone reccomend any of them? models? particular hw/firmware/misc > > > I can also recommend HP blades in general. I haven't had a chance to play with > FreeBSD on one, but the hardware is solid and the management interface is > good. There's a JVM-based remote console that works on most platforms I've > tried as well as the IE-only one. The IE-only one has built-in floppy/CD > support and a couple other tricks, but there's also a standalone JVM-based > media applet. > > I'm 99% sure that the built-in SAS controller is supported by ciss(4), and 90% > sure that the built-in ethernet controller is supported, probably by bge(4). > I'm not sure about the fibre controllers. Wait until support for the SerDes controller has been MFC'ed to stable. The ciss-controller is supported allright but the integrated NIC is currently not. regards Claus
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