The good news is that FreeBSD 7 works for everything you list below.
The bad news is that we haven't made a release that contains it.
However, if you have access to the Emulab git repository, you can get
everything that is needed.
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 01:31:42PM +0200, Zdravko Bozakov wrote:
Hello all,
we are facing a similar problem: we are currently planing the setup of a
local Emulab testbed, and have ordered Supermicro servers with Intel ET
NICs with the 82567 chipset, which requires the igb driver. As far as we
can tell this driver cannot be compiled under FreeBSD 6.3. (As a side
note: 6.3 also generates a very high interrupt rate on Int19 when idle
on our hardware).
We were able to get the Intel cards running on FeeBSD 7.2, which also
solved our interrupt problem. So I guess the question is what the
options or challenges are for upgrading the Emulab software components
to a newer FreeBSD version (>=7.2):
* delay nodes (FreeBSD 4.10)
Our current FBSD72-STD images support operation as delay nodes. However,
we have not done any in-depth measurement of the fidelity. This did require
some changes to the client-side Emulab setup code.
* Emulab software 5.0 for Boss/OPs (FreeBSD 6.3)
The current source tree supports setup of a FreeBSD 7.2 based boss/ops,
but only in 32-bit mode.
* MFSes (FreeBSD 6.2)
This you can download today:
http://www.emulab.net/downloads/tftpboot-100317.tar.gz
has frisbee, freebsd, and freebsd.newnode MFSes with 7.2 kernels.
I assume that others have faced similar difficulties with newer
hardware, and would be very interested in any ideas/solutions/pointers.
Where needed/possible we would like to contribute to getting things working.
Best regards,
Zdravko