AMCC's 3ware 9650SE-2LP

[Keyway Support Dept.]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:

> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:09:05 +0200
> From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai at in-nomine.org>
> To: Keyway Support Dept. <support at keyway.net>
> Cc: freebsd-doc at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: AMCC's 3ware 9650SE-2LP
> 
> -On [20070719 01:18], Keyway Support Dept. (support at keyway.net) wrote:
>> The above piece of hardware is listed as being supported by the twa kernel
>> module on the below docuemntation URL.
>> http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/6-STABLE/hardware/i386/article.html
>>
>> It is not listed as being supported at all at the following URL.
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/HARDWARE.HTM
>
> 6.2-STABLE is newer than 6.2-RELEASE.
>
> The STABLE line of development continues on from 6.2-RELEASE and works towards
> 6.3-RELEASE.
>
> So if 6.2-R does not support a device it can be that 6.2-S does, since it gets
> backports from 7-CURRENT and other sort of patches to its development tree.
>
> Users can install 6.2-R and then using cvsup or csup have the ability to
> track/follow the 6.2-S branch.
>
> Hope this clarifies the situation a bit.
>
> -- 
> Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org> / asmodai
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>

Jeroen,
This information helps out quite a bit.


Thank you very much,

David Hiebert
Keyway Internet Services
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