Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 01:05:36 -0500 From: Joseph Gelinas <scirocco@tasam.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: alan bryan <alanbryan1234@yahoo.com>, FreeBSD current mailing list <current@freebsd.org>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Subject: Re: Side note on Shuttle XPC / AMD X2 (SN95G5V3) (Re: [PATCH] nve(4) locking cleanup) Message-ID: <437D6F30.3060903@tasam.com> In-Reply-To: <200511172353.jAHNrlDl007641@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20051117010651.97608.qmail@web50303.mail.yahoo.com> <Pine.BSF.4.53.0511171134430.80787@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net> <20051117143322.lvz347pzkcg480co@netchild.homeip.net> <200511171135.53903.jhb@freebsd.org> <6.2.3.4.0.20051117120533.057ddae0@64.7.153.2> <200511171915.jAHJF0L6006229@apollo.backplane.com> <437CDD78.3010500@samsco.org> <200511172353.jAHNrlDl007641@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon wrote: > : > :I looked up this box and it looks pretty interesting, but I don't have > :funds to buy one for myself at the moment. Is the motherboard logic any > :different from normal NF4 boards? Could you try booting the FreeBSD > :6.0-bootonly disk to see if at least sysinstall comes up and can talk > :to your drives and network chips? > : > :Scott > > I'd be happy to. If you point me at an ISO image I can boot it up and > try to run through the install. Even better if its SMP (I think all > FreeBSD distributions are SMP by default now, right?). > > I suspect that the MB logic is considerably different. I have an > ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe NF4 system as well (its our package building box), > also with an AMD X2 in it, and it did not exhibit any of the problems > I have had with the shuttle. > > The ASUS has a different ethernet device... sk driver instead of nv. > The BIOS on that MB also reports reasonable numbers in the MPTable and > otherwise seems to be less confused then Shuttle's BIOS. The MP Table > on the ASUS lists 6 pure PCI busses while the one on the Shuttle > lists only 3. Both MB's have only one IO APIC. The BIOSes are clearly > very different. Shuttle's is more 'raw'. > > -Matt > -Current's GENERIC has SMP enabled by default (and the nve driver) so I would assume the recent snapshots would have it enable as well. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/Nov_2005/7-CURRENT-SNAP009-amd64-bootonly.iso
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