Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:56:45 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0 release date and stability Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.2.20051017215302.07669a20@lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20051017215901.045afa88@64.7.153.2> References: <200510152346.RAA20742@lariat.net> <6.2.3.4.0.20051017202509.0869bc58@64.7.153.2> <6.2.5.6.2.20051017195314.080f90f8@lariat.org> <6.2.3.4.0.20051017215901.045afa88@64.7.153.2>
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At 08:13 PM 10/17/2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: >>One thing we're looking at doing is deploying some single-core AMD64s. >>Some of the motherboards use the NVidia NForce chipsets, so we >>need to know if the nve driver works > >I have seen lots of problem reports with the nve. A board that >works well for us and fits nicely in a 2U (probably with the right >heat sink a 1U) is the ECS 480M. >(http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?DetailID=506&MenuID=90&LanID=0) > >It uses the ATI chipset. Disk and NIC are supported. Onboard NIC >is a Realtek (rl driver) which is pretty bug / problem free. Realtek? (Gack... Wheeze....) As I understand it, those are the chips with such a badly thought out DMA architecture that data has to be copied between buffers within the kernel even though the chipset does DMA. >Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 >CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ (1999.78-MHz >686-class CPU) > Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x20fb1 Stepping = 1 > >Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT> > Features2=0x1<SSE3> > AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,LM,3DNow+,3DNow> > AMD Features2=0x3<LAHF,CMP> > Multicore: 2 physical cores How come the kernel is reporting that an AMD chip has HTT? Is this a bug? --Brett
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