Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:26:21 -0400 From: Maxim Khitrov <max@mxcrypt.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: shopping for a new server Message-ID: <CAJcQMWfUG_qEoE8Ob92GpnwzEM3eAQfswkuSi=7wbg8vEiyb0g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110825143338.536ef267@scorpio> References: <4E567C14.7070909@wallnet.com> <CAJcQMWfB_%2BL17dB6Z2GHj-H2%2B%2BUP3=eBt=ySy3_QWaxskz%2BBtw@mail.gmail.com> <4E568F9C.7090403@wallnet.com> <20110825143338.536ef267@scorpio>
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On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:08:28 -0400 > Tim Kellers articulated: > >> Thank you Max, that sounds like good news so far. >> > >> > One minor issue I ran into is that disabling serial ports in BIOS >> > causes FreeBSD to freeze when booting. The solution is simply to set >> > serial ports to be "On without Console Redirection." You should also >> > leave Intel I/OAT disabled, since FreeBSD has no support for it. > > > Is anyone working on integrating support into FreeBSD? There is an > abundance of info available and drivers for both Windows (obviously) > and Linux. > > http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/network/IntelPRO/R167266/en/ioat.htm > http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/sb/CS-023725.htm Jack Vogel was working on this a number of years ago, but there wasn't much interest at the time: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2006-August/011574.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2007-November/015911.html Here's a more recent thread on the topic: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2011-June/035573.html - Max
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