From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 7 10:12:51 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88BBE16A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:12:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rocky.mintel.co.uk (rocky2.mintel.com [217.206.187.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AAB843D3F for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:12:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jason.thomson@mintel.com) Received: from [10.0.62.5] ([10.0.62.5]) by rocky.mintel.co.uk (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j37AClHs058303; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:12:48 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jason.thomson@mintel.com) Message-ID: <4255079E.3080105@mintel.com> Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 11:12:46 +0100 From: Jason Thomson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Long References: <0c2a01c53abd$d9556750$8adb7bd1@icarz.com> <42540961.4030204@samsco.org> <68fafae2bf1ebfdbaa8547720700d6fd@segpub.com.au> <42544A76.3090803@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <42544A76.3090803@samsco.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Jeremy Bogan cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.11-STABLE/PAE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:12:51 -0000 Patches were posted to this list by David Sze to support the amr driver on 4.x. (Re: Can FreeBSD be installed on DellPowerEdge2800? 10th March 05). We have had 4.x + PAE with 6GB of ram on a Dell 2850 running flawlessly under (occasional) heavy load for the last month. I don't know whether those patches have been comitted, but it would be nice if they could be. Scott Long wrote: > Jeremy Bogan wrote: > >>> The lack of PAE support for aac in 4.11 is unfortunately correct. It >>> would probably take 1-2 days to backport it, but it hasn't been a >>> high priority so far. >> >> >> >> Thanks for the info. I'm actually swapping out the PERC/3 card with a >> PERC/4 since it doesn't use the aac driver, and I can't see any issues >> with the amr driver supporting more than 4GB memory. >> > > Uh, no, the amr driver in 4.x doesn't support >4GB either. Well, it > kind of will, but it will die under load. > > Scott > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >