FreeBSD 9 and PERC H200

[Steven Hartland]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Dunn" <kdunn at acm.org>
To: "Steven Hartland" >>> On 22/07/2013 23:35, Steven Hartland wrote:
>>>> mps has been in FreeBSD for years surely older than 9.1 are you
>>>> sure you have a generic kernel?
>>> 
>>> Its certainly in GENERIC for 9.1-RELEASE in amd64
>>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/9.1.0/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC?revision=243808&view=markup
>>> but not in the i386 GENERIC
>>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/9.1.0/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC?revision=243808&view=markup
>>> as per the svn log
>>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=212420
>>
>> Ahh I never user i386 ;-)
> Indeed:
> 
> root at newserver#/root(1)# uname -a
> FreeBSD newserver.kad-hg.org 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243826: 
> Tue Dec  4 06:55:39 UTC 2012 
> root at obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> 
> Thanks for the clarification.  I didn't try 9.1-release amd64.
> 
> I have no intention of using amd64 because of past trouble with alignment 
> in some ports. 

I really wouldn't worry about that, I've been using amd64 for literally
years and never seen an alignment issue with ports. There may well have
been in the past for specific ports but I suspect thats long since been
resolved :)

    Regards
    Steve


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