hptmv support on AMD64

[Christian Brueffer]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:30:40AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> 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.
> 

Done.

- Christian

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