HP BL460c

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 30 March 2007 01:41:47 pm George Kontostanos wrote:
> On 3/30/07, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Friday 30 March 2007 09:46:53 am George Kontostanos wrote:
> > > Greetings everyone,
> > >
> > >  We are about to proceed to a major upgrade for our servers. I was
> > looking
> > > at the new HP ProLiant BL460c witch according to the technical specs at:
> > >
> >
> > 
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliant-bl/c-class/460c/specifications.htmlcomes
> > > with the embedded NC370i network controller. However, after a lot of
> > > goggling I found out that there are compatibility problems with that
> > > controller. Any suggestions are kindly welcomed.
> >
> > If it's the bce(4) part with SerDes RELENG_6 will support it, though 6.2
> > doesn't.  6.3 will include fully support however.
> >
> > --
> > John Baldwin
> 
> 
> It is the :
> 
> Embedded NC370i Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter Network Processor
> Broadcom 5706
> 
> I saw that HP ships that adapter only in the AMD platform which I'm
> considering of purchasing.
> Any ideas about that ?

That should work with bce(4) in 6.x-stable.

-- 
John Baldwin