From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 25 20:53:08 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D33A61065672 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:53:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from max@mxcrypt.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 710808FC15 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:53:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi36 with SMTP id 36so2836099wwi.31 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:53:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.70.81 with SMTP id o59mr156946wed.87.1314304011149; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:26:51 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.208.211 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:26:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110825143338.536ef267@scorpio> References: <4E567C14.7070909@wallnet.com> <4E568F9C.7090403@wallnet.com> <20110825143338.536ef267@scorpio> From: Maxim Khitrov Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:26:21 -0400 Message-ID: To: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: shopping for a new server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:53:08 -0000 On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Jerry 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