pci-express

Hi all.. I am trying to install the FreeBSD-14.1 on a new hardware. the booting from ISO itself gets stuck while loading Broadcom SAS3816 driver from what it looks like. https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/hardware/ does list - Broadcom Ltd./Avago Tech (LSI) SAS 3816 (16 Port SAS/PCIe) - as...

Edit: link to workaround I have a (to me) strange issue with either the drivers in FreeBSD or my assumptions about PCIe and the PCI hierarchy. Using Qemu, I have the following structure: qemu-system-x86_64 \ -cpu host \ -enable-kvm \ -machine q35,accel=kvm \ -device...

Hi! I was not sure if I should put this to networking or off topic. I am looking for a relative cheap ITX motherboard and computer case which can handle 2x8 PCI-E cards with bifurcation without cutting metal or other kind of tinkering. I'd like to have something small for my home network, but I...

Recently, after researching network performance issues, it was assumed the root cause is PCI-Express slot network interface adapter were installed into. Issue were that Intel 10G adapter were not able to TX more than roughly 5G of data. A secondary adapter were since installed and the issue is...