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Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Phenom II X6 1090T, AMD 890FX / SB850,
From: ken mays <maybird1776 () yahoo ! com>
Date: 2010-08-27 10:49:08
Message-ID: 537035.70952.qm () web111315 ! mail ! gq1 ! yahoo ! com
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Hi Dusan,
The answer is yes - it'll work. A few of our developers (and myself) run AMD/ATI \
hardware (i.e. state-of-the-art and legacy) in which the AMD motherboard-based \
chipsets are compatible.
Even at the graphics level, I've gotten the ATI Radeon HD 4870/4890 and 5970 graphics \
cards to work. I suggest the Nvidia GPU-based graphic cards since the commercial \
video driver is maintained by Oracle/Nvidia.
Much of this info I've posted in the HCL and validated with Sun (Oracle).
~ Ken Mays
--- On Thu, 8/26/10, Dusan Kysel <dusan.kysel@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Dusan Kysel <dusan.kysel@gmail.com>
> Subject: [osol-discuss] Phenom II X6 1090T, AMD 890FX / SB850, Any Driver \
> Development Efforts?
> To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
> Date: Thursday, August 26, 2010, 9:12 PM
> I was a very satisfied
> OpenSolaris/ZFS padawan until the Shadows of the Dark Empire
> covered our Sun in march.
>
> During these dark times the continuous disturbances in the
> Source without doubt caused my very Source-sensitive
> motherboard to completely give up its hope and spirit.
>
> To support the struggle against expanding Source
> imperialism I first and foremost have to get back hold of my
> ZFS data which are tied to the latest zpool and zfs version
> supported in the final development release 134 (i.e. zpool
> version 22 and zfs version 4).
>
> I would like to employ the newest AMD chipset and CPU,
> i.e.:
> Phenom II X6 1090T
> AMD 890FX / SB850
>
> on the currently only board I know of with ECC memory
> support
> Asus Crosshair IV Formula
>
> At the end of april, Joe Kotran already queried these
> forums about OpenSolaris compatibility but no answer has
> been given yet and neither the HCL provides any usable
> information:
>
> https://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=477897
>
> I strongly believe the first symptom of OS death is lacking
> support for even essential new hardware like CPU/chipsets
> from the main vendors.
>
> And although I really fell in love with Solaris and would
> prefer it anytime over Linux or any other Operating System I
> can not afford being forced into running on old hardware due
> to lack of any information whether compatibility with recent
> hardware exists or is at least being worked on.
>
>
> Can therefore someone please enlighten me whether the
> aforementioned CPU, chipset and other mobo hardware are
> supported by 134 or any available version of OpenSolaris or
> OpenSolaris based distribution and whether any other
> distribution than OpenSolaris itself provides support for
> zpool version 22 and zfs version 4 and a migration path from
> OpenSolaris?
>
>
> It's pretty hard to believe that nobody in the last 4
> months since their launch was able to at least try to boot
> 134 or some newer builds on AMDs newest CPU and chipset to
> see whether there are some issues or total lack of
> compatibility.
>
> If compatibility is still missing, is anyone at all working
> on adding it and can they provide some ETA?
>
> Are any Illumos, Nexenta, Shillix or Belenix project
> participants involved in developing hardware support,
> serious testing and updating of the HCL for common hardware
> at least or are we all still dependent on the whims of
> Oracle?
>
>
> =Dusan
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