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Subject: Re: Supermicro H8DAE-2 support
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Thomas Ching wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> I am a newbie to this so I apologize if I did not follow any protocol
> that I am supposed to.
> 
> 
> 
> I am porting FreeBSD 4.5 to this board and I am just wondering if
> anyone has any information that I can read. I am really concerned
> about given how new the board is and 4.5 would probably not run on
> it.
> 

Ok so explain why it needs to be 4.5?

Assuming it does, you may be able to run it straight away
or at worst with just a couple of tweeks,
but there are tricks you may not know about to avoid running new hardware
on old systems.

> 
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> It has to be 4.5 for legacy reasons.

why?

explain this in detail.

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> Thanks
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> Thomas
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