Hardware suitable for freebsd 6.3 stable

[John Baldwin]

On Sunday 03 February 2008 11:05:27 am Melkor.kp wrote:
> Hello folks!
> 
> I am new in the FreeBSD community, and I need to install a freebsd
> remotely on a server via ssh so it's vital to know if the
> freebsd stable 6.3 version will boot will boot with the machine
> hardware. I don't know how normally the hardware list is presented when
> freebsd community talk about these problems, so I will use the linux
> lspci to show the machine hardware.

Without device ID's one can't know for certain, but a machine of this age 
should be fine.

> This is the output:
> 
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge

Host bridges, APICs, PCI-ISA bridges, and PCI-PCI bridges don't require 
special drivers, so they should all just work fine.

> 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 5337 (rev 80)
> 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)

This should work fine with the ata(4) driver.

> 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
> Controller (rev a0)
> 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
> Controller (rev a0)
> 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
> Controller (rev a0)
> 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
> Controller (rev a0)
> 00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)

USB host controllers have a generic spec, so they should work fine with the 
normal USB drivers (uhci(4) and ehci(4)).

> 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II]
> (rev 7c)

vr(4) should support this.  It supports Rhine-I/II/III parts.

> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Chrome9 HC IGP
> (rev 01)

If the box is remote, then VGA doesn't matter, and it would be up to X to 
support this anyway.

I think you should be fine and that the GENERIC kernel should boot fine on the 
box.

-- 
John Baldwin