From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 16:19:55 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 355CB106564A for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:19:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from karl@denninger.net) Received: from FS.denninger.net (wsip-70-169-168-7.pn.at.cox.net [70.169.168.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEA8B8FC08 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:19:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from karl@denninger.net) Received: from [192.168.1.40] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by FS.denninger.net (8.14.3/8.13.1) with SMTP id n0TG7gtd055848 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:07:42 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from karl@denninger.net) Received: from [192.168.1.40] [192.168.1.40] by Spamblock-sys (LOCAL); Thu Jan 29 10:07:42 2009 Message-ID: <4981D44C.4050305@denninger.net> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:07:40 -0600 From: Karl Denninger User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------040403000404040704040808" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Intel Mobo MARVEL RAID adapters and amd64 FreeBSD on QuadCore and i7 series Processors X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:19:55 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040403000404040704040808 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit These show up under Windows XP as if they are SCSI adapters (they're not, obviously.) Has there been any view towards supporting these on FreeBSD? They're on all the recent Intel motherboards for the last year and a half or so. Also, is there any particular benefit (or penalty) to running the amd64 build on Quad-Core or i7-series processors? I have an app that might benefit from access to more than 4GB of physical RAM as the working dataset grows but am hesitant to run the 64bit version on that processor (which I understand isn't REALLY a 64-bit chip) if I'm going to run into a penalty for doing so in terms of generalized performance. -- -- Karl Denninger karl@denninger.net --------------040403000404040704040808--