8.0-rc2 dropped hardsupport

[Marten Vijn]

On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 10:13 -0500, Jim Pingle wrote:
> Marten Vijn wrote:
> > Support for the following devices seems not to be continued in 8.0 (and
> > 7.2 and higher):
> > 
> > - WRAP 1C
> > - WRAP 2E (EOL)
> > - ALIX 1C
> > 
> > Both devices stopped booting as described in several postings and pr's.
> > 
> > My question/suggestion to announce this in the
> >> 7.2 and 8.0 release notes. (or better to fix the issues)
> 
> Sorry for the late reply, but I may have a lead on some of these issues.
> 
> NanoBSD is used for the embedded versions of pfSense now, and so we've
> had a lot of users of ALIX/WRAP/etc giving it a workout.
> 
> Take a look at some of the articles I've written so far based on
> information myself and others have collected.
> 
> http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/NanoBSD_on_WRAP
> http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/ALIX_BIOS_Update_Procedure
> http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Boot_Troubleshooting (First few items)
> 
> It seems on the ALIX boards with VGA, you need to set a BIOS option for
> power management to APM, which gets it past the freeze at devd.
> 
> Also, we've been running kernels with the geode.c rev 1.11 mentioned
> elsewhere in this thread for months patched against 7.2-RELEASE and it
> works great for most ALIX models, but according to our users it does not
> seem to offer any additional support for the models with a VGA BIOS
> (LEDs and such still are not usable). Apparently they use an Award BIOS
> and not TinyBIOS.

> Hope this helps,

Yes it does, 
switching from ACPI to APM setting in the bios fixes it.

thanks,
Marten

> Jim
> 


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