Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:55:34 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: David Sze <dsze@alumni.uwaterloo.ca> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD be installed on DellPowerEdge2800 ? Message-ID: <422E4986.6080409@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20050308235853.GA81150@mail.distrust.net> References: <BA84A761ED41C54893BED691A4A574CF977226@EXCH5.eurowings.com> <4224F19C.2090207@rackspace.com> <6.2.1.2.2.20050301234017.03e93e68@pop3.tellurian.com> <4225CCE4.3080304@rackspace.com> <20050308235853.GA81150@mail.distrust.net>
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David Sze wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:25:40AM -0600, Art Mason wrote: > >>Vinny Abello wrote: >> >>>At 05:50 PM 3/1/2005, Art Mason wrote: >>> >>>>Indeed, just installed on a customer's server last night, and I build >>>>SMP support into the GENERIC kernel this morning. Only issues I >>>>encountered has to do w/ recognizing the full 4GB of RAM, but this >>>>apparently has some compatibility issues w/ the amr driver. >>>>As per Holger's comments about disabling USB in BIOS, this is a good >>>>suggestion, since the DRAC apparently causes some IRQ issues w/ the >>>>PS/2 keyboard controller, or something along those lines. Regardless, >>>>these 2850 boxes are stupid fast, and I'm looking forward to >>>>benchmarking 5.3 on them. >>> >>> >>>FYI, the architecture of the 2850 (assuming it is similar to your 2800) >>>requires that you enable PAE support in your kernel of whatever OS you >>>run to address the full 4GB of RAM. This is due in some part because of >>>the memory mapping that was done for the PCI express bus and/or onboard >>>Perc controller (per Dell tech support). We've run into this with all of >>>our 2850's with various OS's and enabling PAE (per Dell's advice) fixes it. >> >> >>Yeah, I cam across that on some mailing list archives, but saw some >>additional references that this can cause issues with the amr driver. >>Have you experienced any instability issues with the amr driver and PAE >>enabled? If not, then I'll give this a shot on one of our lab boxes for >>testing. Thanks for the suggestion, BTW. > > > > On my 2850 the upper 1GB of RAM cannot be addressed without PAE support > in the kernel. However, amr in 4.11-RELEASE does indeed seem to have > trouble with PAE. The result being that with the option in the kernel, > the root device (ufs:/dev/amrd0s1a) cannot be found. > > I backported scottl's amr PAE fixes from RELENG_5; the diffs applied > cleanly (with offsets). I'm happy to report that my 2850 can now > address its full 4GB and see its amr volumes. > > The diff against 4.11-RELEASE is attached, hopefully someone will be > willing to commit it to RELENG_4. > I don't have the cycles to watch after RELENG_4, so I'll have to take your word that this works. What date is this patch against? I committed some follow-up fixes last week that are required for management apps to work (and yes, LSI is getting ready to support FreeBSD with management apps). Scotthome | help
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