Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:14:17 +0800 From: <ferdie@petalio.hk.com> To: <freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd-proliant Digest, Vol 141, Issue 1 Message-ID: <web-35732572@groupmail.hk.com> In-Reply-To: <20100309120022.9A5CB10656B4@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20100309120022.9A5CB10656B4@hub.freebsd.org>
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> 1. Re: BL460 G6 support (Christoph Weber-Fahr)
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> Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:44:52 +0100
>From: Christoph Weber-Fahr <cwf-ml@arcor.de>
> Subject: Re: BL460 G6 support
> To: Ross West <westr@connection.ca>, freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <4B9545A4.7050208@arcor.de>
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> Hello,
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> Ross West wrote:
>> CWF> Does anybody know if there FreeBSD support forthcoming for the
>> CWF> current BL460 generation, or has FreeBSD written off HPs blade
>> CWF> server as insignificant?
>>
>> I'm currently running FreeBSD 7/8 on BL460 (G1) right now - Using
>>the
>> Qlogic fiber channel cards + the NC373i gigabit cards. Works with
>> generic kernel on 8.0 nicely.
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> Thanks for your reply - but that is *not* the issue. I have 26 of
>those.
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> The problem we (and you, FWIW) have is that the G6 (and the
>soon-to-come
> BL465 G7) have a *different* NIC chip set which is not supported,
> and I do not see any movement in this matter. The G6 has been out
> for nearly a year now, G1s are not on the market any more, so thats
> a major problem.
>
> Oh, and evcn if there is a supported mezzanine card this wouldn't
> help either, since mezzanine cards can not connect to the switch
> the embedded cards are on, so I can not use those to expand existing
> centers (without purchasing new switches).
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>> If you mean official HP support - then you're asking the wrong
>>place,
>> as it's up the HP, not Freebsd. And last I heard HP isn't offering
>> official support for BSD any time soon, only Redhat + SLES Linux.
I am witness to that...
>
> Correct.
>
>> I don't believe Freebsd offers official support for any platform.
>> There are probably consulting places that will gladly help out
>>though!
>
> Nope. This is not about "official support" - this is about "do we
> consider this server platform important enough to make sure there
> are the necessary drivers for it". And the ridicule and
>schoolmasterly
> rebuffs people get when asking about this seem to imply otherwise.
> (just google the issue and read the handful or so threads
> on the topic. Apparently, this isn't even considered a problem.
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>> There was someone who has written a driver for the NC532i (broadcom
>> 57711 10Ge chipset that comes with the BL460-G6) but wanted to do
>> more testing - see:
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-net@freebsd.org/msg30514.html
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> Yes, I know that thread. David Christensen of Broadcom. I contacted
> him in August 2009 and offered help, but he didn't need any more
> testers. I also took up on his suggestion to escalate this issue
> via our HP key account mananger, but apparently that didn't do
> any good either.
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> Since then, he stopped answering my emails.
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> After 6 months, this seems to be a dead end.
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> Regards
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> Christoph Weber-Fahr
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