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| author | wilko <wilko@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-07-16 11:38:01 +0000 |
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| committer | wilko <wilko@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-07-16 11:38:01 +0000 |
| commit | bcb9b5a4b273837c7b2e3713aa195c1c6293622b (patch) | |
| tree | 769230ffebd80c0f22a88d8bd128362cab2b4424 /release/texts | |
| parent | 9723c4f9657bae1bf6dac94be38e85fe5f9ea194 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-bcb9b5a4b273837c7b2e3713aa195c1c6293622b.zip FreeBSD-src-bcb9b5a4b273837c7b2e3713aa195c1c6293622b.tar.gz | |
Document Ethernet card reqs for SRM boot. Note that 8255x (fxp)
does not currently work correctly on alpha.
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| -rw-r--r-- | release/texts/alpha/HARDWARE.TXT | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/HARDWARE.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/HARDWARE.TXT index 038d391..5e9f699 100644 --- a/release/texts/alpha/HARDWARE.TXT +++ b/release/texts/alpha/HARDWARE.TXT @@ -1497,6 +1497,15 @@ information. chip-based), Qlogic family and NCR/Symbios. Be aware of the machine-specific bootability issues for the various adapter types. +- Ethernet: if you want to boot your Alpha over the Ethernet you will +obviously need an Ethernet card that the SRM console recognises. This +generally means you need a board with an 21x4x Ethernet chip as that is +what Digital used. These chips are driven by the FreeBSD 'de' (older driver) +or 'dc' (newer driver). Some new SRM versions are known to recognise the +Intel 8255x ethernet chips as driven by the FreeBSD 'fxp' driver. But beware: +the 'fxp' driver is reported not to work correctly with FreeBSD/alpha (although +it works excellently on FreeBSD/x86). + - FibreChannel: the Qlogic QL2x00 FibreChhannel host adapters are fully supported. |
