Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:28:39 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hptmv support on AMD64 Message-ID: <20051117162839.GA1055@unixpages.org> In-Reply-To: <437BBCFD.4000102@samsco.org> References: <437BBC51.2030804@rogers.com> <437BBCFD.4000102@samsco.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 04:13:01PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > Mike Jakubik wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >The man page for the hptmv (HighPoint RocketRAID 182x) drivers, on 6.0 > >and 5.4 states: > > > >--- > > > >*NOTES* > ><http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hptmv&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.4-stable&format=html#end>; > > > > The *hptmv* driver only works on the i386 platform as it requires a > >binary > > blob object from the manufacturer which they only supply for the i386 > > platform > >--- > > > > > >This is however not true, at least not anymore. HighPoint provides open > >source drivers that include the blob for i386 and amd64, as seen here > >http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr1810a.htm on the open source > >driver version 1.12. Also the man page for -CURRENT says that i386 AND > >amd64 is supported. Is there any way that we can update FreeBSDs' 5.x > >and 6.x drivers to this current version? I have a dual Opteron server > >that i would like to run in native mode, but the fact that i have to > >download binary modules, (which don't support 6.0) is a PITA when > >keeping the system up to date. > > > >Thank You. > > I updated the hptmv driver to include amd64 support in time for the 6.0 > release. Have you given it a try yet? > Unfortunatly the hptmv(4) manpage in RELENG_6 didn't reflect this. I have just MFCd the respective change to remedy that. Thanks for the notice, Mike. - Christian -- Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDfK+3bHYXjKDtmC0RAgW7AKCi8Ts0XWyplQ6ykS/L6r8toZ4YjACgi6sl JDCT5YdkjBeEeLacDQ9S7tQ= =F6up -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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