Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:10:19 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: ia64@freebsd.org Subject: SGI Altix 350 milestone: installable image! Message-ID: <F5189923-B341-4C14-9DBB-27650FE5F575@xcllnt.net>
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All, With great pleasure and a little bit of pride in managing to figure this platform out, I can announce that we've reached a very good first = milestone: We can install FreeBSD on an SGI Altix 350. Use the following daily to start playing with it: = https://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/ia64-ia64/10.0-projects_altix2-r2= 45399-JPSNAP/iso/ Thanks Sato-san for making the dailies on the Altix branch! Of course there are gotchas and loose ends, etc. These are: 1. If your disk doesn't have an EFI partition, make sure to create one by aligning the partition to track boundaries. Otherwise EFI won't mount the FAT32 in it. The best way to do that is to enter the shell and create the partition before starting the install. 2. The Broadcom network interace does *NOT* work at this time, because it still needs to be ported to the new busdma/mi framework. Thus, if you install FreeBSD you won't have networking just yet. You can do a buildworld though :-) 3. I haven't actually run in multi-user on multiple nodes. The global TLB shootdown is not propagated across nodes just yet, so expect big problems if you try this on a multi-node system. Limit your testing to a single node for now. I'll be working on bge(4) first. This should make the Altix into a fully functional machine. After that I'll expand to multiple nodes. This is where the real fun is with respect to NUMA support in FreeBSD. Have fun and let me know how things go. This platform isn't without its quirks. All I know is that it works for me :-) --=20 Marcel Moolenaar marcel@xcllnt.net
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