From owner-freebsd-ia64 Thu Jan 30 16:16:37 2003 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 92E7C37B401 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:16:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A059243E4A for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:16:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (athlon.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.3]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0V0GRMW078408; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:16:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0V0GRcV000787; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:16:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0V0GRuu000786; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:16:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:16:26 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Roy Dragseth Cc: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG, Borge Brunes Subject: Re: Problems installing on HP rx2600. Message-ID: <20030131001626.GA731@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <200301301415.36439.royd@cc.uit.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200301301415.36439.royd@cc.uit.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 02:15:36PM +0100, Roy Dragseth wrote: > Hi. > > We've got a cluster of rx2600 that we will use as a linux compute cluster, but > a rather FreeBSD-centric colleague of mine want to test FreeBSD on it. We're > also interested in running a few benchmarks to see if there are any > difference in the performance between Linux and FreeBSD, esp. regarding > network related benchmarks. > > The problem is that we're unable to get the thing installed, the machine > resets rather early in the process of loading the installation kernel. We > get as far as this before we get System Alertmessages on the Management > Processor (MP): The rx2600 is only supported with code on our development branch. The reason is mostly that the HP chipset doesn't provide compatibility with the i396 legacy (ISA bus, known devices at known I/O ports). This bombs out because we still have code (sio(4) and sc(4)) that has a rather hard dependency on it. As for the completeness and/or stability of support: SMP does not yet work, but an UP kernel is pretty stable. We use one for continuous package building and it hasn't paniced yet. I'm already in the process to create an installable ISO based on the code on our branch for another slighlty related reason, so it may be possible to make it more publicly available. This would put pressure on our mirrors, so I don't want to do it gratuitously. If people like to see such an ISO made available, please speak up. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message