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Date:      Sat, 10 May 2003 00:42:32 -0400
From:      Jim Brown <jpb@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net>
To:        freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Request for Content: FreeBSD/ia64 5.1-RELEASE Hardware Notes
Message-ID:  <20030510044232.GA8378@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030510020137.GA2188@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>
References:  <20030510000205.GC7976@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> <20030510020137.GA2188@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>

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* Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> [2003-05-09 22:01]:
> On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 08:02:05PM -0400, Jim Brown wrote:
> > 
> > 1 Introduction
> 
> It's probably a nice gesture to link to the platform home pages.
> 
> > 2 Supported Processors and Motherboards
> 
> Processors:
> 	Itanium & Itanium 2
> 
> Motherboards: 
> 	It's probably a good idea to focus on chipset for now:
> 	chipsets:
> 		HP zx1 (only on development branch)
> 		Intel 460GX
> 		Intel E8870
> 
> > 3 Supported Devices
> > 3.1 Disk Controllers
> 
> ATA: Except for the PC chipset embedded ATA controllers, most should
> work OOTB.
> 
> SCSI:	LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 is known to work [mpt(4)]
> 
> > 3.8 Serial Interfaces
> 
> Diva Serial [GSP] Multiport UART (development branch only [puc(4)]
> 
> > 3.11 USB Devices
> 
> UHCI and OHCI are supported. The UHCI on the "BigSur" seems to have
> a weird hub attached on both ports which generally makes USB unusable
> I don't think it's specific to ia64.
> 
> This be it, roughly. Thanks,
> 
> -- 
>  Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net
> 

Done.  

http://sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net/ia64/article.html

Additional wordsmithing soon.
Your comments and suggestions are welcome.  

Best Regards,
jpb
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