Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:53:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VIA VT6103 support (VIA EPIA PD) Message-ID: <200509251353.j8PDr5XE005907@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200509241919.j8OJJfoD024059@argotsoft.com>
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Mark J. Sommer <msommer@argotsoft.com> wrote: > Friend found a post regarding this. Says there is an update to the BIOS > too. Please check out: > > http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.aspx?catid=28&threadid=60131 Thanks, I've read through the complete thread (more than 300 messages). It seems that the lock-ups people have been experiencing were caused by several issues, most of which are only Linux-specific (bugs in the longhaul driver and in the itvt driver, and problems caused by using optimized 686-code). I don't expect any of those problems to appear under FreeBSD. It's also worth noting that there are _no_ FreeBSD PRs at all which mention such problems with EPIA boards. The only problem I've been readong about was the VT6102/6103 issue, and that's why I wrote the initial message in this thread. (BTW, some people also reported that their problems were caused by improperly grounded hardware.) > If anyone has this working properly with FreeBSD, I'd appreciate knowing. I > hear the Ethernet on these are not great performers. I'll report as soon as I got my PD board and performed some testing. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "File names are infinite in length, where infinity is set to 255 characters." -- Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System"
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