Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:09:21 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <Tm4528@aol.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEPCEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <30.694ba972.2f0ddd70@aol.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Tm4528@aol.com > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 4:17 PM > To: tedm@toybox.placo.com > Cc: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD > > > In a message dated 1/4/05 11:50:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, > tedm@toybox.placo.com writes: > > None of the new Supermicro hardware I've tried works with Freebsd > > 4.10 properly. I've seen that this has been reported by others. > > They are all based on the 7520 and 7530 Intel chips. 5.3 works > > ok, but a 3.4/800 processor on 5.3 is slower than a 3.06/533 > > processor on our old 7502 chipset based system with 4.9. What can > > be done? > > >Donate one of the systems to a FreeBSD kernel developer. > > > >Ted > > Do you really have no contacts at SM or Dell? What kind of a development > org has no contacts with major vendors? It's not a question of not having contacts. It's a question of actually defining the problem in a way that a developer can get a fix on it. Currently, this is done with the PR mechanism on FreeBSD.org. Doing a search of this shows only PR i386/72579, which claims FreeBSD 4.X doesen't work at all on this chipset, which is contrary to what the OP was saying. I would assume if the OP actually read the instructions in the handbook about how to go about filing a good bug report that they might possibly get some assistance. Ted
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