From: vdharani@infernopark.com
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Hardware for venti/fossil/cpu server
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:25:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <30255.192.11.222.118.1095913559.squirrel@www.infernopark.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6c32db063186c3f2b10cc5b381b68739@plan9.bell-labs.com>
jmk,
> The 2 AMD64 motherboards we have experience with are
> the Tyan S2882 dual Opteron (mentioned before) and recently
> an Aopen MK89-L (http://usa.aopen.com/products/mb/MK89-L.htm).
> We stuck it in an Antec Aria case to see if it made a decent
> desktop machine. We've not investigated it fully, e.g. it has
> a Realtek 8110S 1000/100/10 controller on-board and we haven't
> got round to making that work (we boot it with PXE via
> that controller then switch to using an Intel 82557 card in
> one of the PCI slots). Realtek were unresponsive when asked
> for programming details but looking at existing *nix drivers
> it doesn't look hard to fix up the existing ether8139.c.
is it that Opteron processor is run in 32 bit mode? Or is it that 64 bit
is supported in plan9 tools now?
thanks
dharani
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-23 4:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-22 8:22 Matthias Teege
2004-09-22 9:24 ` geoff
2004-09-22 10:07 ` Nigel Roles
2004-09-22 10:18 ` geoff
2004-09-22 10:42 ` Nigel Roles
2004-09-22 15:01 ` jmk
2004-09-23 4:25 ` vdharani [this message]
2004-09-22 23:18 ` geoff
2004-09-22 15:19 jmk
2004-09-22 16:21 ` Matthias Teege
2004-09-22 22:57 ` geoff
2004-09-24 0:40 ` Kenji Okamoto
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