Re: Side note on Shuttle XPC / AMD X2 (SN95G5V3) (Re: [PATCH] nve(4) locking cleanup)

From: Joseph Gelinas (scirocco_at_tasam.com)
Date: 11/18/05

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    Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 01:05:36 -0500
To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>

    Matthew Dillon wrote:
    > :
    > :I looked up this box and it looks pretty interesting, but I don't have
    > :funds to buy one for myself at the moment. Is the motherboard logic any
    > :different from normal NF4 boards? Could you try booting the FreeBSD
    > :6.0-bootonly disk to see if at least sysinstall comes up and can talk
    > :to your drives and network chips?
    > :
    > :Scott
    >
    > I'd be happy to. If you point me at an ISO image I can boot it up and
    > try to run through the install. Even better if its SMP (I think all
    > FreeBSD distributions are SMP by default now, right?).
    >
    > I suspect that the MB logic is considerably different. I have an
    > ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe NF4 system as well (its our package building box),
    > also with an AMD X2 in it, and it did not exhibit any of the problems
    > I have had with the shuttle.
    >
    > The ASUS has a different ethernet device... sk driver instead of nv.
    > The BIOS on that MB also reports reasonable numbers in the MPTable and
    > otherwise seems to be less confused then Shuttle's BIOS. The MP Table
    > on the ASUS lists 6 pure PCI busses while the one on the Shuttle
    > lists only 3. Both MB's have only one IO APIC. The BIOSes are clearly
    > very different. Shuttle's is more 'raw'.
    >
    > -Matt
    >

    -Current's GENERIC has SMP enabled by default (and the nve driver) so I
    would assume the recent snapshots would have it enable as well.

    ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/Nov_2005/7-CURRENT-SNAP009-amd64-bootonly.iso
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