From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 3 09:34:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B96916A4CF for ; Mon, 3 May 2004 09:34:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hermes.sc.intel.com (fmr03.intel.com [143.183.121.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B43F43D1D for ; Mon, 3 May 2004 09:34:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arun.sharma@intel.com) Received: from petasus.sc.intel.com (petasus.sc.intel.com [10.3.253.4]) 1.15 2004/01/30 18:16:28 root Exp $) with ESMTP id i43GZ6Vt003520; Mon, 3 May 2004 16:35:06 GMT Received: from unix-os.sc.intel.com (unix-os.sc.intel.com [143.183.96.244]) major-inner.mc,v 1.10 2004/03/01 19:21:36 root Exp $) with ESMTP id i43GZO5A002544; Mon, 3 May 2004 16:35:24 GMT Received: from intel.com (vpn-10-3-128-39.sc.intel.com [10.3.128.39]) by unix-os.sc.intel.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id i43GYnF17156; Mon, 3 May 2004 09:34:50 -0700 Message-ID: <409674A4.9050700@intel.com> Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 09:34:44 -0700 From: Arun Sharma User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Moolenaar References: <20040503150038.GA8383@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20040503150038.GA8383@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.31 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Muthu_T@Dell.com cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PE3250 + FreeBSD 5.2.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 16:34:56 -0000 On 5/3/2004 8:00 AM, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 04:34:50PM +0530, Muthu_T@Dell.com wrote: > >>BTW, what needs to be done to use the standard console screen instead of >>serialconsole >>For FreeBSD-IA64? > > > Our console code is old and contains assumptions that only hold on PCs > or when the chipset has compatibility for it. Since a lot of machines > are based on the HP zx1 chipset, enabling the console by default is > not a good idea. > The PE3250 is based on the Intel E8770 chipset. I have the console working on this chipset after enabling the USB keyboard post-install using the lines I posted earlier. However, the installation had to be done using a serial console. -Arun