Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard

[Scott Long]

Alan Jay wrote:

> Thanks Jonathan for this, can I ask the unmentionalble (which Linux
> implementation did you pick?).
> 
> I had major problems installing with more than 4Gb but once I moved to stable
> we seemed to have a stable platform when doing basic stuff - we have two
> databases (mySQL) one is reasonably heavily used and one very extensively
> used.  They sit on different servers to maximise performance.  One worked
> perfectly for a couple of weeks while the other more extensive one repeatedly
> fell over.
> 
> I think I agree wholeheartedly with your comments being a great supporter of
> FreeBSD it is a shame that the AMD release is not as super as the other
> versions we have used extensively.
> 
> Thanks for your support.
> 
> Regards
> ALan
> 

The >4GB problems with 5.3-RELEASE are a well known problem and affect 
for i386 and amd64.  It's pretty much fixed in the 5.3-STABLE stream, 
but there are a few edge cases that I still need to fix which prevent me 
from feeling good about turning it into a 5.3-R errata fix.  It'll 
definitely be fixed and fully working for 5.4-RELEASE next month.

Scott