Christian Brueffer wrote:
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 04:13:01PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
Mike Jakubik wrote:
Hi,
The man page for the hptmv (HighPoint RocketRAID 182x) drivers, on 6.0
and 5.4 states:
---
*NOTES*
<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hptmv&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.4-stable&format=html#end>
The *hptmv* driver only works on the i386 platform as it requires a
binary
blob object from the manufacturer which they only supply for the i386
platform
---
This is however not true, at least not anymore. HighPoint provides open
source drivers that include the blob for i386 and amd64, as seen here
http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr1810a.htm on the open source
driver version 1.12. Also the man page for -CURRENT says that i386 AND
amd64 is supported. Is there any way that we can update FreeBSDs' 5.x
and 6.x drivers to this current version? I have a dual Opteron server
that i would like to run in native mode, but the fact that i have to
download binary modules, (which don't support 6.0) is a PITA when
keeping the system up to date.
Thank You.
I updated the hptmv driver to include amd64 support in time for the 6.0
release. Have you given it a try yet?
Unfortunatly the hptmv(4) manpage in RELENG_6 didn't reflect this. I
have just MFCd the respective change to remedy that. Thanks for the
notice, Mike.
- Christian
Thanks for updating it. It might also be good to note that the driver
_doesn't_ work on i386+PAE.
Scott
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