On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:01:45 -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 01:17:20PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >
> > I'm contemplating putting together a system based on
> > http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/P4/E7221/P8SCi.cfm .  I'm
> > wondering about support for the BCM5721 GigE and Intel ICH6R SATA
> > controllers.
> 
> Pkgbuild.netbsd.org has almost exactly this configuration.  It is
> working well with the amd64 port and NetBSD-current from a few months
> ago.

I hadn't even thought about amd64 for this.  But since I don't see any Xen
configurations there, I'll probably pass.
> 
> FWIW, it also has an LFS root filesystem, which has been problem-free
> (and really fast!) thus far.
> 
That sounds like something I'll play with in a Xen machine, or maybe
reserve for things like /usr/src and /usr/pkgsrc. 


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb