Art Wildman said... |In keeping with SL's "main goal... to have everything compatible with |Enterprise", I would point folks to the upstream vendor & focus on |listing what improvements you've made to support any additional hardware |in SL. The USV doesn't appear to know what's compatible. They have a list of supported hardware, but that is defined by which vendors have paid them a fee and either perforemd the tests on their hardware and reported back, or paid the USV an additional fee to perform the tests. Hence the minimal list purely of supprted systems-- not motherboards or chipsets or cards, etc. [The rest is a side note on how I know this and a slight rant about USV support.] I know this because I just had the conversation ith the USV yesterday. We have some licenses up for renewal and are not sure we're going to renew. Why? Lack of support. One of only two questions I asked last year was whether a certain motherboard or its chipset had kernel support or would in the next release. It took them *weeks* to get back to me with a definitive answer, which I will reproduce here in its entirety. Normally I might fear this was a contract violation, but not in this case: [We] do not support indivisual components and also do not support as well. However I discusssed the details of the mother board with my peers and found that the board is having a number of known issues with Linux. Makes me right glad we paid $800 x 5 licenses. [I had made it clear I just wanted to know whether the kernel had or would support this board, not USV.] Our system builder tested the board, and other than the NIC driver (which we got readily from the mfr) it has performed just fine for two months on 10 systems. For anyone who cares. it's the Asus A8V E-SE with SATA and PCIe. The Marvell NIC has been the only problem we have run into, and the sk98lin driver installs fine. (We do get a boot whine on the 304SDR kernel about missing symbols, but it still works fine.) We have Athlonn64s in these but so far are running the 32 bit OS, FWIW. We have run these with both ATI and NVidia video cards.