Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:09:08 -0400 From: Munish Chopra <chopra@soulwax.net> To: Adriaan de Groot <adridg@cs.kun.nl> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 as an X desktop? Message-ID: <20031003220908.GA18802@opiate.soulwax.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0310032300340.29629-100000@odin.cs.kun.nl> References: <20031003201032.45A962A900@canning.wemm.org> <Pine.GSO.4.44.0310032300340.29629-100000@odin.cs.kun.nl>
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On 2003-10-03 23:51 +0200, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Thanks for the informative post. So amd64 is headed for tier-1 status? That's been my understanding for a while. [...] > > > No, we do not have a driver for the onboard nvidia ethernet on the nforce3, > > but some of the boards I've seen have a realtek 8110 based gigabit ethernet > > (no driver) or a 3com/marvell gigabit chip (I dont know what this chip is). > > This sounds like "there is no Gb LAN support at all anywhere". > I don't know if it helps, but several of the reference (pre-production) boards shipped with the 3Com stuff on-board. Most, if not all from what I hear, production boards seem to be shipping with the Realtek chip. This has apparently caused headaches here and there. > > The ATA driver doesn't recognize some of the SATA or RAID hardware on these > > boards, but I've been able to use plain IDE drives no problem. > > OK, I guess that's a start. I can't tell whether the Promise 20378 RAID > controller is supported from the FBSD x86 HW support page -- that'd > provide 2 SATA ports already. And the LAN controller seems to be 3Com, > that can hardly be a problem. > I think Promise has been pretty generous to Soeren so far by providing him SATA hardware to test with. You might want to check with him for details. Good luck. -- Munish Chopra
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