Side note on Shuttle XPC / AMD X2 (SN95G5V3) (Re: [PATCH] nve(4)
locking cleanup)
Joseph Gelinas
scirocco at tasam.com
Thu Nov 17 22:06:00 PST 2005
Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :
> :I looked up this box and it looks pretty interesting, but I don't have
> :funds to buy one for myself at the moment. Is the motherboard logic any
> :different from normal NF4 boards? Could you try booting the FreeBSD
> :6.0-bootonly disk to see if at least sysinstall comes up and can talk
> :to your drives and network chips?
> :
> :Scott
>
> I'd be happy to. If you point me at an ISO image I can boot it up and
> try to run through the install. Even better if its SMP (I think all
> FreeBSD distributions are SMP by default now, right?).
>
> I suspect that the MB logic is considerably different. I have an
> ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe NF4 system as well (its our package building box),
> also with an AMD X2 in it, and it did not exhibit any of the problems
> I have had with the shuttle.
>
> The ASUS has a different ethernet device... sk driver instead of nv.
> The BIOS on that MB also reports reasonable numbers in the MPTable and
> otherwise seems to be less confused then Shuttle's BIOS. The MP Table
> on the ASUS lists 6 pure PCI busses while the one on the Shuttle
> lists only 3. Both MB's have only one IO APIC. The BIOSes are clearly
> very different. Shuttle's is more 'raw'.
>
> -Matt
>
-Current's GENERIC has SMP enabled by default (and the nve driver) so I
would assume the recent snapshots would have it enable as well.
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/Nov_2005/7-CURRENT-SNAP009-amd64-bootonly.iso
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