> Hi Karel, > > I am well aware of the fact that neither of the > relevant drivers (i.e. yge, yukonx, myk) currently > supports the Marvell 8059 as I have explicitly > pointed it out in the first sentence of this thread, > as well as in the previous thread I have been > referring to. I personally tried them all out, so I > can confirm this.
Great! So you have also found and tested myk, that's good. > On the other hand if you try to consult my "old > friend" on e.g.: Opensolaris and "Phenom II X6 > 1090T", "AMD 890FX" or "SB850", you might easily > find, that apart from various references to the > thread I have started on these forums there is > absolutely no other confirmation of the compatibility > of this major and important CPU and chipset. > > As a OpenSolaris user I can well live with the fact > that not every piece of cheap harware junk will work > with this operating system. What is on the other hand > for many potential users hard to swallow, is the > difficulty of determining what hardware will actually > work well on OpenSolaris or even work at all. Not > everyone is e.g. willing to buy a specific CPU and > motherboard only to try out whether it will work at > all just because a similiar, but not identical, > chipset was reported to work, neither will everyone > be interested in acquiring and testing several > network adapters only for finding out which of them > will work well, which will occasionally hang and > which features are unsupported and therefore > irrelevant for making a choice. > > I think it is furthermmore quite obvious that not > every OpenSolaris user wants to choose between giving > up ECC memory, investing into multiple Opteron CPUs > and a some quite expensive server board, buying some > old hardware or risking incompatibility and driver > issues with current boards due to lacking > information. Despite Intels popularity, AMD still > provides unbeatable overall value and the most > affordable 6-cores and is a certainly great fit for > OpenSolaris. > > I think the vision of the HCL was to be easily able > to access information about compatibility at least > with common hardware. The currently newest entry > seems to be from 27-05-2010 though and e.g. the > detailed report I have submitted for the ASUS > Crosshair IV Formula motherboard over a month ago is > still not available, making me come to the conclusion > that the service must have been terminated together > with Oracles abortion of OpenSolaris! > I perfectly understand your frustration. I've been also in temptation to update my aging Q6600 box to something more new and Opteron 6000 looks really quite good value for its money. Anyway, there is no way to do this since whole Oracle seems to be in transition to Solaris 11 Express, where I hope whole service will stabilize a bit. In current world, OSol is nonexistent and as you have found it's quite useless to use it as a basis for any report. Anyway, let's wait a little bit and see if situation improves a bit when Sol11Express is out. I at least hope so, since otherwise I would probably need to go to the Debian/Ubuntu/Linux point from which I migrated to the OpenSolaris world few years ago and truly that would be painful change after using OSol. :-) > The questions are: > Which of them will work better on OpenSolaris with > available drivers? > Which one would you recommend? > Which features are missing driver support? > Does one of them burden the CPU more? > Which provides better latencies? To be honest I do have some experience with PCI based Marvel, PCIE based marvel (Asus P5W64 WS Pro board), also with some Broadcom based NICs (3C990 and NIC built into HP 585) and finally some Intel card (PCI-X inside HP 585, T500 builtin NIC) and I've found out that Intel provides the best latencies from all my available NICs. I'm sure this is quite vague information for you, but I don't have anything more for you anyway. The only problem so far is that PCI-X Intel + Solaris 10 sometimes crashes the box completely. My guess is that this is hardware issue as builtin Broadcom is perfectly stable although a little bit slower (higher latency). Karel -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
