Request for Content: FreeBSD/ia64 5.1-RELEASE Hardware Notes

[Jim Brown]

* Bruce A. Mah <bmah at freebsd.org> [2003-05-10 12:09]:
> If memory serves me right, Jim Brown wrote:
> > * Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at xcllnt.net> [2003-05-09 22:01]:
> > > On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 08:02:05PM -0400, Jim Brown wrote:
> > > > 
> 
> Comments for both Marcel and Jim...thanks for working on this!
> 
> > > > 1 Introduction
> > > 
> > > It's probably a nice gesture to link to the platform home pages.
> 
> I guess we could link directly to the ia64 platform page, rather than
> the top-level page for all platforms.

Done.


> 
> > > > 2 Supported Processors and Motherboards
> > > 
> > > Processors:
> > > 	Itanium & Itanium 2
> 
> Other things users might want to know:
> 
> SMP vs. UP?
> 
> What types of consoles are supported (e.g. VGA, serial)?
> 
> > > Motherboards: 
> > > 	It's probably a good idea to focus on chipset for now:
> > > 	chipsets:
> > > 		HP zx1 (only on development branch)
> 
> "On development branch" means the P4 branch, right?  If so, I'm am
> tempted to leave it out of the hardware notes for CVS HEAD, or at
> least maybe we should say "Perforce repository".  Is this situation
> going to change as a result of your blanket commit approval?


Check the new text...
I don't know about the Perforce repo- is there a URL?


> 
> > > 		Intel 460GX
> > > 		Intel E8870
> > > 
> > > > 3 Supported Devices
> > > > 3.1 Disk Controllers
> > > 
> > > ATA: Except for the PC chipset embedded ATA controllers, most should
> > > work OOTB.
> 
> I wish I knew which ones those were, so we could turn them off.
> 
> > > SCSI:	LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 is known to work [mpt(4)]
> > > 
> > > > 3.8 Serial Interfaces
> > > 
> > > Diva Serial [GSP] Multiport UART (development branch only [puc(4)]
> > > 
> 
> I may have turned sio(4) by mistake in the original version of this
> document.  If so, we should turn it off now.


Done. 


> 
> > > > 3.11 USB Devices
> > > 
> > > UHCI and OHCI are supported.
> 
> For UCHI and OHCI you can (probably) just turn on that part of the
> hardware notes for ia64.

Done. 


> 
> > >  The UHCI on the "BigSur" seems to have
> > > a weird hub attached on both ports which generally makes USB unusable
> > > I don't think it's specific to ia64.
> 
> What's "BigSur"?  Can we maybe put this in the chipset/motherboard
> notes?

I found that it's an HP i2000 system.  I've worked that in.

> 
> > > This be it, roughly. Thanks,
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > >  Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel at xcllnt.net
> > > 
> > 
> > Done.  
> > 
> > http://sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net/ia64/article.html
> > 
> > Additional wordsmithing soon.
> > Your comments and suggestions are welcome.  
> 
> Thanks guys...this is looking good.
> 
> Bruce.