Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:28:36 +0800 From: "Mars G. Miro" <marsgmiro@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: 200704/amd64 CURRENT on da SunFire x4100 Message-ID: <28edec3c0704190228u31489c9en87cb4e526080f09e@mail.gmail.com>
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Greetings, I happen to have a SunFire x4100 box (firmware of da BIOS, LSI/MPT, ILO is da latest) so I tested 200704/amd64 CURRENT on it. (Take note that FreeBSD 6.2 {amd64, i386} work fine on it, no issues whatsoever). Issues I encountered w/ CURRENT: 1) USB keyboard doesnt work (this has no PS/2). Even setting hint.atkbd.0.disabled="1" doesnt help. In order to install CURRENT, I had to boot to 6.2 and goto Fixit mode, manually dd'd, fdisk'd, bsdlabel'd and newfs'd da SAS HD, then temporarily brought up da em interface, mount the 200704 ISO (from an NFS share) and manually installed whatever's needed at 7.0-CURRENT-200704/* to da HD, put in da necessary rc.conf/fstab/hosts/ttys(so i could manage via serial) files and voila, got it to boot (*finally*) 2) built-in Intel NICs dont work. at first stickin da IPs in /etc/rc.conf crashed the box during boot-up so I took out the IP and allowed it to boot and managed it via serial console. However the only useful information I could get when i do a # ifconfig em0 <IP/netmask> up is Apr 19 17:02:29 x4100_200704A kernel: em0: Link is Down Apr 19 17:02:29 x4100_200704A kernel: em0: link state changed to DOWN Apr 19 17:02:33 x4100_200704A kernel: em0: Link is up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex Apr 19 17:02:33 x4100_200704A kernel: em0: link state changed to UP Apr 19 17:02:59 x4100_200704A kernel: 16.b49bee8c36a0b540 too long then da box instantly reboots. 3) I happen to have an ixgb NIC plugged on its PCI-X (I posted some mails on -stable a few weeks/days ago about it not working on 6.2R). Tho its not officially supported on CURRENT, I noticed that there are some commits in HEAD so this was the reason why I tried if the CURRENT driver works. Unfortunately it doesn't, gives a LOR. cheers mars
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