Any Update on HP Workstation Support? XW9300

[Jeff Isaac]

Greetings All!

I am new to this list (normally hanging out on Freebsd-PPC) and have  
a question regarding some possible hardware support changes in  
FreeBSD 7. I was wondering whether support has been added for the HP  
XW9300 Professional Workstation. 6 would not boot with the problems  
described here:

http://bsd.haofood.net/2006/02/02/freebsd-on-hp-xw/

and his referenced article here:

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=61050+0+/usr/local/www/ 
db/text/2004/freebsd-amd64/20041114.freebsd-amd64

and I have not been able to find any followup to this problem via a  
search of the mailing lists or googling. The machine uses a Tyan  
S2895 motherboard

http://www.tyan.com/support_download_datasheets.aspx?model=S.S2895

with an HP BIOS. Any chance 7 would support this machine now? I have  
been able to boot Linux (SuSE) and Windows (XP Pro 32-bit) without  
difficulty, but both FreeBSD and Solaris (and Mac OS X - sssshh!)  
choke. Any chance this has to do with the BSD kernel specifically? In  
my experience the machine refused to boot both -AMD64 and -x86  
variants. I do not own one at present so cannot provide specific  
details, but my last one was a great machine and I am considering  
replacing it with the same, but only if I can make it a FreeBSD  
box ;-) Thanks!

- Jeff