Tyan K8WE (S2895) Status

[Mark Atkinson]

Carlos Linares wrote:
> Hello
> all.  Can anyone with the afore-mentioned motherboard relate their
> experiences?  I'm particularly interested in how it runs FreeBSD amd64
> with two Opteron dual-core 2xx chips (it seems you need both chips in
> order to see all mobo devices since buses are connected to one or the
> other cpu socket via hypertransport link), and whether recent releases or
> -current can see all ethernet ports and PCI (incl. -X and e)
> slots with ACPI enabled/disabled.  Has anyone tried the new BIOS
> update?  S2895's not EOL'd yet - though availability is getting
> sketchy...

I'm running two single core 252's on it, and I haven't run amd64 on it, but
it should be fine.  I've running 32bit kernels/world on it just great on
the 105 (not E) bios.  nfe0 and 1 work great, even the on-board raid works:

ar0: 238475MB <nVidia MediaShield RAID1> status: READY
ar0: disk0 READY (master) using ad6 at ata3-master
ar0: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad4 at ata2-master

tracking 8-current on it presently.

However, I don't use any video in it at all, only the serial console.  So I
can't attest to that.

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