FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850
Vivek Khera
vivek at khera.org
Fri Aug 18 16:27:50 UTC 2006
On Aug 17, 2006, at 9:49 PM, Alan Amesbury wrote:
> adequate em(4) adapters found on the PE750 with bge(4) hardware.
> FreeBSD identifies these adapters as BCM5750A1, but Dell says they're
> actually Broadcom 5721J adapters instead. See
>
> http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/850_specs.pdf
>
I'm not sure how much to believe the dell docs... on a PE800, they
claim the system has a BCM5721 chip, which is how it was coded into
the bge driver when I first got this machine and helped get patches
built for it. However, the pciconf database claims it is a
"BCM5750A1". Which one is correct? I suspect the latter.
I have PR's open on resolving this inconsistency, but they are
obviously low priority.
I have no problems with the delay in the 'active' status, but I hard-
code IP configuration since it is a server.
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