Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 08:54:10 -0500 From: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" <john.cagle@hp.com> To: "David Landgren" <david@landgren.net>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dennis_Kj=E6r_Jensen?= <signout@signout.dk>, <obrien@freebsd.org>, "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Holger Kipp" <Holger.Kipp@alogis.com>, "Will Saxon" <WillS@housing.ufl.edu>, "Don Bowman" <don@sandvine.com>, "Wilko Bulte" <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: HP ProLiant DL360G3 rebuttal... ;-) Message-ID: <C50AB9511EE59B49B2A503CB7AE1ABD10440E500@cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net>
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First of all, thank you to everone for their responses on this topic. I =
had no intention of instigating such a long thread when I sent the first =
email, and I apologize that this post is off topic for -current.
That said, I guess this would be a good time to let the cat out of the =
bag:
Over the past 6 months, we (the HP ProLiant software team) have been =
working with Peter Wemm and Paul Saab to develop a basic ProLiant health =
driver for FreeBSD. The new driver leverages portions of our Unix and =
Linux health drivers. We will be making this available soon to the =
larger FreeBSD community as a beta test. The driver will not be =
officially supported or warrantied by HP, but we will do our best to =
make sure it works and is useful. I will send an email to -current to =
announce its availability.
Thanks again to Peter and Paul. Without their help this would not have =
been possible!
Please send any followup questions directly to my email address.
Thanks,
John
--------------------------------
John Cagle john.cagle@hp.com
Principal Member Technical Staff
Industry Standard Servers
Hewlett-Packard Company
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)=20
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 8:31 PM
> To: obrien@freebsd.org
> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: HP ProLiant DL360G3 rebuttal... ;-)
>=20
>=20
> FreeBSD is not currently an officially supported operating=20
> system, but we're doing as much as we can to ensure that=20
> FreeBSD (-stable &
> -current) will install and run well on ProLiant servers. We=20
> also provide some technical support to the maintainers of the=20
> bge and ciss drivers.
>=20
> To provide official "tier-one" support (drivers for advanced=20
> features, management agents, deployment software, regression=20
> testing, customer support, services, etc.) would be very=20
> costly, and, at this time, the FreeBSD market share numbers=20
> don't support that level of investment.
>=20
> Regards,
> John
> --------------------------------
> John Cagle john.cagle@hp.com
> Principal Member Technical Staff
> Industry Standard Servers
> Hewlett-Packard Company
>=20
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David O'Brien [mailto:obrien@freebsd.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 7:01 PM
> > To: Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)
> > Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: HP ProLiant DL360G3 rebuttal... ;-)
> >=20
> >=20
> > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 04:12:55PM -0500, Cagle, John
> > (ISS-Houston) wrote:
> > > FWIW, some of the benefits of running a health driver (on a
> > supported
> > > OS) are:
> >=20
> > Is FreeBSD a supported OS?
> >=20
> > --
> > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
> >=20
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