What kind of MotherBoard is better for FreeBsd and linux?

[Pav Lucistnik]

Adriaan de Groot píše v pá 10. 06. 2005 v 22:01 +0200:
> On Friday 10 June 2005 15:22, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Oleg Rusanov wrote:
> > > What kind of MotherBoard for Amd64 OPteron 252 or 264 processors is
> > > better for FreeBsd and linux?
> >
> > Did you check http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html for
> > input?
> 
> I think the motherboards list could use a redesign so that it carries _more_ 
> information. Right now one man's "Fully Functional" is another man's "Useless 
> Junk" because there's not enough detail on the page to decide what's going 
> on.

That's what Notes field is for.

> Case in point: I just got an Asus A8N-SLI (an accident on the fscking 
> university administration where my order for an A8V goes through 6 layers of 
> clueless bureaucracy to get to the store -- I guess there was some Greek 
> interpretation somewhere along the line) which is nForce4 based. Now, for 
> 5-stable users, you get:
> 
> 1) Won't boot 5.3-R amd64
> 2) In 5.3-R i386, is missing SATA RAID ('cause it's a Sil3114 which isn't 
> supported on any platform as RAID, but does manage to squeak by as a regular 
> SATA controller) and missing the onboard NIC (since nve is 6-CURRENT)
> 
> Unfortunately I didn't have my 5.4-R CDs with me to try it with either. Still, 
> this board is listed as "fully functional" on the motherboards page, while it 
> clearly isn't. Maybe for the original reporter who wants neither SATA RAID 
> nor networking it's fine.

There were a huge progress between 5.3-RELEASE and 5.4-RELEASE, and
submitter claims his results with post-5.4 -STABLE. I will happily
update the entry if you can provide feedback based on last release, ie.
5.4-RELEASE. 5.3-RELEASE just don't cut it anymore, sorry.

-- 
Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>

You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some
watery tart threw a sword at you.
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