FreeBSD 4.X and Intel E7520 chipset problems

[Doug White]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Gordan Remus (Vox Mundi) wrote:

> Recently we have purchased a Supermicro X6DHR-IG2 motherboard
> based on Intel E7520 chipset with 2x3.0GHz Xeons and are unable
> to install FreeBSD 4.X on it.
> It seems that FreeBSD 4.X is not recognizing the chipset
> and therefore it's unable to recognize Mylex AcceleRAID 160 controller.

Its not usually required to specifically support the chipset to enumerate
the buses. Can you get a dmesg from it?

> Everything is working fine on FreeBSD 5.X, but unfortunately
> the application we need to run on top of that is made specifically
> for FreeBSD 4.X.
>
> Is there any chance that Intel E7520 chipset will be supported
> on some future 4.X releases or is there some kind of patch/workaround ?
>
> Best Regards,
> Gordan Remus
>  Technical Department
>       Vox Mundi
>
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