FreeBSD 9.1 stability/robustness?

[Rainer Duffner]

Am Sat, 3 Nov 2012 21:56:45 -0400
schrieb Rick Miller <vmiller at hostileadmin.com>:

> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Rainer Duffner
> <rainer at ultra-secure.de> wrote:
> > Am Thu, 1 Nov 2012 20:14:51 -0600 (MDT)
> > schrieb Brett Glass <brett at lariat.net>:
> >
> >> I need to build up a few servers and routers, and am wondering how
> >> FreeBSD 9.1 is shaping up. Will it be likely to be more stable and
> >> robust than 9.0-RELEASE? Are there issues that will have to wait
> >> until 9.2-RELEASE to be fixed? Opinions welcome.
> >
> >
> > If I'm not mistaken, the bge-stuff that makes the default NICs ins
> > HP G8 servers (360+380) actually run will not make it back into 9.1.
> > Intel cards work much better anyway...
> 
> I have a blog post at
> http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/06/14/freebsd-on-hp-proliant-dl360p-g8-servers/
> which touches on this. 

It comes up invariably once you google for "FreeBSD DL 380 G8"...

> I heard as recently as today that the fixes
> for the BCM5719 and 5720 were recently committed to -CURRENT.  It's
> too late for them to be rolled into 9.1.  Not sure if they'll be
> committed to to stable/8 or not, but if so they could make it into
> 8.4-R.

Oh - will were be an 8.4 release? That would be interesting.