Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 11:48:38 +0200 From: Philip Homburg <pch-fbsd-1@u-1.phicoh.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> Cc: "K. Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org>, "A. Wilcox" <AWilcox@wilcox-tech.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver Message-ID: <m1fLQNs-0000G0C@stereo.hq.phicoh.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 May 2018 15:12:39 -0700 (PDT) ." <201805222212.w4MMCdA9031937@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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>Also as the Moore's law curve flattens expect the life of these >older, but not so old, machines to live quiet some time. I >believe we are talking sandy bridge and earlier? If that is >corret Sandy bridge is still a very viable system. I noticed this lack of love for older systems recently. I wanted to use an older Dell server to test the 11.2 BETAs and RCs. Turns out, you can't install FreeBSD using a USB stick image because the BIOS only support MBR. No idea why MBR support was dropped for the USB images. In the end I had to find a CD burner, and after a couple of tries managed to install from CD. After that, my ansible playbooks started failing because /boot/loader.conf is absent if you boot from zfs in combination with MBR. Pity. This older server hardware is great for trying out new releases, play with zfs, etc.
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