Subject: Midrange machine + NetBSD. Comments?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Marc Tooley <netbsdMLpostNO@spam.quake.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 02/13/2006 17:02:38
I'm picking up a nice machine for other testing purposes. It'll be
midrange:
Tyan Thunder K8W (S2885)
LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-8X 8PT
8 x 250GB Maxtor SATA2/16MB/etc (for the MegaRAID)
1 x 250GB SATA2 for multibooted OSes
8 GB DDR400, ECC Registered RAM
2 x AMD Opteron 246
... and basically, I'm wondering whether there's anyone else running
NetBSD on similar hardware with a useful degree of success?
One specific: am I going to need to build a specialised kernel to prep
for the 8GB RAM? I seem to recall that sometimes memory above 2GB
requires:
REALBASEMEM
REALEXTMEM
... does it still?
Comments appreciated; note the Reply-To: current-users@netbsd.org.
Thanks.