SuperMicro FreeBSD/ia64 compatibility>?

Arun Sharma arun.sharma at intel.com
Mon Mar 1 13:09:41 PST 2004


James Van Artsdalen wrote:
> Does anyone know if FreeBSD/ia64 will boot on a Supermicro Itanium
> system?

It seems to be based on the Intel E8870 chipset. I was able to test a recent kernel, as of Monday, Feb 23 including this cvs commit:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/ia64/ia64/machdep.c?rev=1.176&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

on a Intel Tiger 4 box, which is also based on the same chipset. Without the above change, you'll typically  see the machine reset during bootup.

	-Arun


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