hptmv support on AMD64

[Scott Long]

Christian Brueffer wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 04:13:01PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> 
>>Mike Jakubik wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>The man page for the hptmv (HighPoint RocketRAID 182x) drivers, on 6.0 
>>>and 5.4 states:
>>>
>>>---
>>>
>>>*NOTES* 
>>><http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hptmv&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.4-stable&format=html#end> 
>>>
>>>   The *hptmv* driver only works on the i386 platform as it requires a 
>>>binary
>>>   blob object from the manufacturer which they only supply for the i386
>>>   platform
>>>---
>>>
>>>
>>>This is however not true, at least not anymore. HighPoint provides open 
>>>source drivers that include the blob for i386 and amd64, as seen here 
>>>http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr1810a.htm on the open source 
>>>driver version 1.12. Also the man page for -CURRENT says that i386 AND 
>>>amd64 is supported. Is there any way that we can update FreeBSDs' 5.x 
>>>and 6.x drivers to this current version? I have a dual Opteron server 
>>>that i would like to run in native mode, but the fact that i have to 
>>>download binary modules, (which don't support 6.0) is a PITA when 
>>>keeping the system up to date.
>>>
>>>Thank You.
>>
>>I updated the hptmv driver to include amd64 support in time for the 6.0
>>release.  Have you given it a try yet?
>>
> 
> 
> Unfortunatly the hptmv(4) manpage in RELENG_6 didn't reflect this.  I
> have just MFCd the respective change to remedy that.  Thanks for the
> notice, Mike.
> 
> - Christian
> 

Thanks for updating it.  It might also be good to note that the driver 
_doesn't_ work on i386+PAE.

Scott