ServerWorks/Broadcom HT1000 chipset errata saga

J. Martin Petersen jmp+lists at alvorlig.dk
Sun Dec 23 02:45:14 PST 2007


Travis Mikalson wrote:
> As far as I can tell, Søren has the HT1000 problems worked out, or at 
> least worked around. (If the chipset doesn't do that correctly, stop 
> doing that...)
>
 >[snip]
 >
> See attached patch, *please* test for RELENG_7 and report back here so 
> re@ can feel a lot more warm and fuzzy about including this in RELENG_7 
> before 7.0-RELEASE occurs.

I have tested this with the scenarios that failed previously (with 6.2 
as well as vanilla 7.0-BETA4) and it works! Good work, Søren, and thanks 
Travis!

> It would be fantastic if 7.0-RELEASE worked right out of the box for 
> people using HT1000-based motherboards.

I second that. Please include it into 7.0-RELEASE, as that would make it 
usable on off-the-shelve HP ProLiant servers instead of "silently" 
corrupting everything.

Martin


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