Tyan K8WE (S2895) Status

[Carlos Linares]

Hello
all.  Can anyone with the afore-mentioned motherboard relate their
experiences?  I'm particularly interested in how it runs FreeBSD amd64 with two Opteron dual-core 2xx chips (it seems you need both chips in order to see all mobo devices since buses are connected to one or the other cpu socket via hypertransport link), and
whether recent releases or -current can see all ethernet ports and PCI (incl. -X and e)
slots with ACPI enabled/disabled.  Has anyone tried the new BIOS
update?  S2895's not EOL'd yet - though availability is getting
sketchy...

Below is some of the stuff I've dug up so far...

<<Carlos T. Linares>>
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<<NetBSD 4.99.64 amd64 on Tyan K8SD Pro (S2882-D)>> 

http://search.gmane.org/?query=s2895+&author=&group=gmane.os.freebsd.*&sort=relevance&DEFAULTOP=and&%5B=1&TOPDOC=40&xP=Zs2895&xFILTERS=Gos.freebsd.*---A

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-bugs/2008/01/19/msg000353.html

http://www.tyan.com/support_download_bios.aspx?model=S.S2895


2008/07/09 S2895_v105e_beta.zip  v.1.05E BETA  
Problem Fix Description:
 
- Changed PCI-e Slot 3 Option ROM default setting to [Enabled}
- Fixed an issue where you could not run 2x 7950GT video cards under Vista without getting a Code 12 in the device manager
- Fixed an issue where you could not run 2x 8800GT video cards under Vista without getting a Code 12 in the device manager
- Added bios option for enabling SLI for 88xx series video cards