FreeBSD/amd64 Project -- motherboards Call For Update

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday, November 02, 2010 3:18:44 pm Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 17:52:25 +0000
> Piotr Kudzin <piokud84 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > There is a list of MBs (amd64) supported by FreeBSD:
> > 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html
> > 
> > I'd like to see an update, how newest releases of FBSD handles recent
> > desktop and server solutions. Release Notes often lists hardware as
> > supported, and it works, but not always as it should. I'd like to see your
> > opinions, what and how good or bad works.
> > 
> 
> Good luck with this.
> 
> I submitted a PR almost 2 years ago and it was closed with this
> response:
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: brueffer
> State-Changed-When: Fri Oct 30 20:19:34 CET 2009
> State-Changed-Why:
> The mainboard list has been removed, as it does not serve a useful
> purpose anymore nowaways.  Nontheless, thank you for your submission!
> 
> That's why the most recent entries are for a release which is already
> several years old.

If we aren't maintaining the list we should just remove it.

I do think the list would be mostly pointless at this time as most 
motherboards should work fine, at least the support is at the same level as 
i386 where we do not have a similar board list.

-- 
John Baldwin