Re: Motherboard chipset for NetBSD 5.1

["Christoph Egger" <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

The board is not the problem. If you have trouble with
booting NetBSD SMP then you might be affected by the C1E errata.
A workaround has been applied to -current today.
It should be applied to NetBSD 5.1, too.

W/o the workaround you should be able to boot NetBSD with ACPI
and w/o SMP at least.

Christoph


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> On 11/27/10 10:13 AM, Morten Gulbrandsen (Java programmer) wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have this motherboard in my mind:
> > 
> > GA-870A-UD3 (rev. 2.1)
> > 
> > http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3517#ov
> > 
> 
> I got this reply from Gigabyte:
> 
> ===
>       Dear Mr. Gulbrandsen,
> 
> Thank you for emailing GIGABYTE.
> We are delighted with your interest in our products.
> 
> I'm sorry to inform you that we do NOT officially support any
> non-Windows operation system. The only possible way for you to check
> with is to visit the NetBSD website/Forum or the chipset makers'
> website, like AMD, Realtek, etc.
> 
> Wish you luck!
> 
> ===
> 
> AMD is no problem they make excellent support and any issue will be
> resolved,  How well does NetBSD or any BSD scale on six cores?
> 
> Is SMP still an issue with NetBSD?
> 
> I remember there was something there but so far I haven't been able to
> figure out if that is resolved; on this board, which is not selected to
> run NetBSD I did observe something strange, after disabling ACPI and SMP
> NetBSD finally started.  I will report more about this in a separate
> mesage.
> 
> 
> 
> It says here
> 
> http://www.wasabisystems.com/oems/board_support_package
> http://www.wasabisystems.com/docs/WCB70223.pdf
> 
> AMD64
> AMD AMD64 Hammer
> 
> 
> http://www.wasabisystems.com/technology/certified_BSD
> 
> The software is to my knowledge based on NetBSD, but the company was
> down for a while, but they are now live.
> 
> There are other discussions for this topic here:
> ===
> Support for this motherboard?
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1468
> ===
> 
> audio device:
> Vendor:       ATI Technologies Inc
> Device:       SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
> 
> This is not an issue because I have an old ensonic PCI sound card which
> runs well on all BSDs
> 
> DVD
> Vendor:       ATI Technologies Inc
> Device: SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [IDE mode]
> 
> 
> ATI was always a problem; nVidia or Intel chipsets never was a problem.
> 
> Video card
> Vendor:       nVidia Corporation
> Device:       NV44 [Quadro NVS 285]
> 
> Video and network is not a problem, because I can insert 3com or nvidia
> in PCI and PCI Extress.
> 
> Please which gigabyte board supporting AMD64 Phenom II  X6  six core
> works well with NetBSD SMP?
> 
> This board with ATI controller does not. At least not on first attempt.
> 
> NIC
> Vendor:       Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> Device:       RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
> 
> Works fine. No issues on NetBSD.