From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 8 06:54:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3705737B401; Thu, 8 May 2003 06:54:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ztxmail04.ztx.compaq.com (ztxmail04.ztx.compaq.com [161.114.1.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CEF943FA3; Thu, 8 May 2003 06:54:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john.cagle@hp.com) Received: from cceexg11.americas.cpqcorp.net (cceexg11.americas.cpqcorp.net [16.110.250.125]) by ztxmail04.ztx.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE75ABF2; Thu, 8 May 2003 08:54:11 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net ([16.110.250.85]) by cceexg11.americas.cpqcorp.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6673); Thu, 8 May 2003 08:54:11 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6375.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 08:54:10 -0500 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: HP ProLiant DL360G3 rebuttal... ;-) Thread-Index: AcMUK8/uUJBcv05STtq2winag7LJbwACX5yQAEvlo2A= From: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" To: "David Landgren" , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dennis_Kj=E6r_Jensen?= , , "Matthew N. Dodd" , "Holger Kipp" , "Will Saxon" , "Don Bowman" , "Wilko Bulte" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 May 2003 13:54:11.0382 (UTC) FILETIME=[4D944D60:01C31569] cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: HP ProLiant DL360G3 rebuttal... ;-) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 13:54:16 -0000 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