From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mon Mar 7 22:21:27 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 542BFAC786A for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2016 22:21:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from will@sundivenetworks.com) Received: from mail.sundivenetworks.net (mail.sundivenetworks.net [212.13.212.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 24960F48 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2016 22:21:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from will@sundivenetworks.com) Received: from sundive.email ([212.13.212.8]) by mail.sundivenetworks.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.86 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1ad3Wm-0006qb-Ik for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:21:24 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:21:24 +0000 From: Will Green To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Skylake Loader Performance 10.3-BETA3 Organization: Sundive Networks In-Reply-To: <56DDB93F.8050705@multiplay.co.uk> References: <36DF1C06-91F5-41A6-AEF7-173453083FC9@sundivenetworks.com> <56DDB93F.8050705@multiplay.co.uk> Message-ID: <832b3346ebcbf0eef4045061ca53e1f7@sundivenetworks.com> X-Sender: will@sundivenetworks.com User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.1.4 X-Spam_score: -2.9 X-Spam_score_int: -28 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam: No X-bounce-key: sundivenetworks.net-1; will@sundivenetworks.com; 1457389287; 8f132d0e; X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:21:27 -0000 On 2016-03-07 17:24, Steven Hartland wrote: > On 07/03/2016 16:43, Will Green wrote: >>> On 4 Mar 2016, at 18:49, Mark Dixon wrote: >>> >>> Will Green sundivenetworks.com> writes: >>> >>>> I am happy to test patches and/or current on this server if that >>>> helps. If >>> you want more details on the >>>> motherboard/system I have started a post on it at >>> http://buildwithbsd.org/hw/skylake_xeon_server.html >>> I've made the UEFI switch which worked fine, but I'm also happy to >>> help out >>> with testing if anyone looks at this. >> Are you booting from ZFS? >> Unless I’ve missed something this isn’t yet supported by the >> installer, but it is possible to get working manually. >> >> > Pretty sure you missed something and those changes where merged, imp > should be able to confirm. You're right: that was an error on my part. I've now got ZFS boot working with UEFI. :) I booted the Skylake motherboard with FreeBSD-10.3-RC1-amd64-uefi-memstick.img and it successfully installed to ZFS *and* loaded at normal speed. Looks like UEFI is the way to go on Skylake systems. All tests have gone well so far. Thanks