Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 21:28:03 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FYI, no-go with booting FreeBSD-5.3 on AlphaServer ES40 Message-ID: <20041210202803.GI90137@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <m1CcZTT-0024g4C@building.weird.com> References: <m1CcZTT-0024g4C@building.weird.com>
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On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 08:21:35PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote.. > I was just trying to take a chance on testing the bge(4) driver from > FreeBSD and so tried booting the latest release on my client's ES40. > > Unfortunately even if it had not panic'ed I wouldn't have got the root > filesystem mounted as the bge(4) driver doesn't even seem to be a > default in the GENERIC kernel, which is pretty silly given that it the > driver for one of the more common GigE cards supplied by DEC/Compaq/HP, > e.g. the DEGXA-TX..... Looks like there are some problems with other > drivers too, but of course I don't know how serious they are. > > Maybe this "boot -v" output will help someone get it further along. > > Note that NetBSD does boot and run quite well on the system so long as > the ohci driver is omitted from the kernel and so long as none of the > IDE devices are accessed (or their driver is also omitted). The only > only problem is that both NetBSD's bge(4) and wm(4) drivers have rather > poor GigE performance on this system (once their minor bugs are fixed), > apparently because we have too much memory installed in it (and it's > only at half capacity!). What good is an alpha if you can't put more > than 4GB in it! ;-) FreeBSD does not even support 4GB so don't moan... :-P > Perhaps omitting ochi and atapci et al would help FreeBSD boot on the > ES40 as well? For the very near term I can try netbooting other kernels That is not the reason. > for testing. Note I'm not subscribed to the list though. I tested FreeBSD on ES40 some releases back and it worked OK. > real memory = 17172619264 (16377 MB) But surely not on 16G RAM. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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