Request for Content: FreeBSD/ia64 5.1-RELEASE Hardware Notes
Jim Brown
jpb at sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net
Fri May 9 21:42:35 PDT 2003
* Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at xcllnt.net> [2003-05-09 22:01]:
> On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 08:02:05PM -0400, Jim Brown wrote:
> >
> > 1 Introduction
>
> It's probably a nice gesture to link to the platform home pages.
>
> > 2 Supported Processors and Motherboards
>
> Processors:
> Itanium & Itanium 2
>
> Motherboards:
> It's probably a good idea to focus on chipset for now:
> chipsets:
> HP zx1 (only on development branch)
> Intel 460GX
> Intel E8870
>
> > 3 Supported Devices
> > 3.1 Disk Controllers
>
> ATA: Except for the PC chipset embedded ATA controllers, most should
> work OOTB.
>
> SCSI: LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 is known to work [mpt(4)]
>
> > 3.8 Serial Interfaces
>
> Diva Serial [GSP] Multiport UART (development branch only [puc(4)]
>
> > 3.11 USB Devices
>
> UHCI and OHCI are supported. The UHCI on the "BigSur" seems to have
> a weird hub attached on both ports which generally makes USB unusable
> I don't think it's specific to ia64.
>
> This be it, roughly. Thanks,
>
> --
> Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel at xcllnt.net
>
Done.
http://sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net/ia64/article.html
Additional wordsmithing soon.
Your comments and suggestions are welcome.
Best Regards,
jpb
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