Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

[Tm4528 at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/4/05 11:50:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
tedm at toybox.placo.com writes:
> None of the new Supermicro hardware I've tried works with Freebsd 
> 4.10 properly. I've seen that this has been reported by others. 
> They are all based on the 7520 and 7530 Intel chips. 5.3 works 
> ok, but a 3.4/800 processor on 5.3 is slower than a 3.06/533  
> processor on our old 7502 chipset based system with 4.9. What can 
> be done?

>Donate one of the systems to a FreeBSD kernel developer.
>
>Ted

Do you really have no contacts at SM or Dell? What kind of a development
org has no contacts with major vendors?