From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 20 09:46:40 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3775316A4CE; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:46:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hex.athame.co.uk (guru164.netsonic.fi [194.29.193.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88B3943D46; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:46:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@athame.co.uk) Received: from vimes.int.athame.co.uk ([192.168.1.3]) by hex.athame.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.50 (FreeBSD)) id 1DCx0z-000Hk8-PK; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:46:33 +0200 From: Andy Fawcett Organization: Being Lazy At Home (BLAH!) To: David Xu Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:47:03 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200503200019.39083.andy@athame.co.uk> <423CCC7C.60408@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <423CCC7C.60408@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503201147.05006.andy@athame.co.uk> cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone have any experience of the Abit KV-80 board? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:46:40 -0000 Hi David, On Sunday 20 March 2005 03:06, David Xu wrote: > Andy Fawcett wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I've looked through the archives, and googled a fair bit, without success. > > > >Does anyone here have any experience (good or bad) of running > > FreeBSD/amd64 on an Abit KV-80 board? > > > >http://www2.abit.com.tw/page/en/motherboard/motherboard_detail.php?pMODEL_ > >NAME=KV-80&fMTYPE=Socket%20754 > > > >A. > > I haven't used kv8, but used av8, av8 has lots of bugs in ACPI script, also > FreeBSD can boot and all devices seem be probed right, but kernel will keep > printing annoying messages, vty0 is unusable if you press backspace and > cause > console to bell. ACPI is really failure technology. Thanks for these comments. These points, together with some I received off-list, have been enough to convince me to avoid this particular board. A. -- Andy Fawcett | andy@athame.co.uk | tap@kde.org "In an open world without walls and fences, | tap@lspace.org we wouldn't need Windows and Gates." -- anon | tap@fruitsalad.org