From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 13 19:16:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3165F16A4D2 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:16:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ru@rambler-co.ru) Received: from relay0.rambler.ru (relay0.rambler.ru [81.19.66.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BA6243E01 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:14:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ru@rambler-co.ru) Received: from relay0.rambler.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay0.rambler.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id A48C95E22; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:14:48 +0300 (MSK) Received: from edoofus.park.rambler.ru (unknown [81.19.65.108]) by relay0.rambler.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 832745E07; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:14:48 +0300 (MSK) Received: (from ru@localhost) by edoofus.park.rambler.ru (8.13.8/8.13.8) id kADJEsYV066122; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:14:54 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ru) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:14:54 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Olivier Mueller Message-ID: <20061113191454.GB66013@rambler-co.ru> References: <1163442609.10865.59.camel@bigapple.omnis.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1163442609.10865.59.camel@bigapple.omnis.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: No virus found Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ? 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: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:16:46 -0000 --vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 07:30:09PM +0100, Olivier Mueller wrote: > Hello, >=20 > I will soon get some new servers with more than 4 GB of RAM, and > I am wondering if they will work fine even with the PAE > option activated: are all the required drivers (RAID mfid, bce > on the Dell, ciss0 on the HP) 100% compatible, or should I expect > trouble?=20 >=20 Drivers that are either known to NOT work with PAE or were not tested with PAE are excluded by the PAE config file, you can check there. : 0 edoofus:ttyp2:/sys/i386/conf >egrep 'ciss|mfi|bce' GENERIC PAE : GENERIC:device ciss # Compaq Smart RAID 5* : GENERIC:device mfi # LSI MegaRAID SAS : GENERIC:device bce # Broadcom BCM5706/BCM5708 Gigabi= t Ethernet So it looks like all of them should work fine with PAE. > If you have a working "/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/xxxx" with active > PAE on one of these servers, I'd be interested :) >=20 > Btw, when will we see these new servers listed under: > http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html ?=20 > Or should I use send-pr ? :) >=20 And you absolutely have no option of running FreeBSD/amd64 on them? What a PITA! :-) Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFWMQuqRfpzJluFF4RAp4/AJ90IJFQCFfAnSRLMAgunQEWNuf9VQCgjYBb LQRD6wT7EvO176MHoULL6ts= =ms2q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko--