Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 00:34:27 +0100 From: Jan Sieka <jan.sieka@gmail.com> To: Zbigniew Bodek <zbb@semihalf.com> Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Cavium ThunderX support in the tree Message-ID: <CAGeh=dW_ykiMGJA=BMmOm=hCUFrBar7Ov_uYsQ8rDRBr0HZGgA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAG7dG%2BxzC_SGiFtncTd7tbi_VqmyXj_08JY34hKFDkvnSg1PPw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAG7dG%2BxzC_SGiFtncTd7tbi_VqmyXj_08JY34hKFDkvnSg1PPw@mail.gmail.com>
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Congratulations! This is a great achievement. I smiled when I saw hw.ncpu :). One thing that interested me is the pkg command: do you use some official pkg repo or you have your own set up? Best regards, Jan Si=C4=99ka 2015-11-05 17:14 GMT+01:00 Zbigniew Bodek <zbb@semihalf.com>: > Hello all, > > Semihalf is happy to officially announce that starting from SVN > revision r289550 FreeBSD is ready to run on Cavium ThunderX > system-on-chip! > ThunderX is the first ARM64 (ARMv8) hardware platform to be supported > by FreeBSD and the only one that introduces 96-CPU cores SMP. > The integrated code includes support for: > > - Single and dual-socket operation (48 and 96 CPUs) > - PCI Express > - SATA > - Network Interface Controller (VNIC) 1/10/40G > - Other required drivers (GICv3, Interrupt Translation Services) > > There is still some polishing and optimizations to be done but the > system can be used as is in 11-CURRENT and will work as briefly shown > on this video: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D1q5aDEt18mw > > This would not be possible without all great work of the following > people at Semihalf: > Dominik Ermel > Wojciech Macek > Michal Mazur > Tomasz Nowicki > Michal Stanek > Zbigniew Bodek > > Special thanks go to: > ARM, Cavium and the FreeBSD Foundation for sponsoring this work. > Ed Maste (The FreeBSD Foundation) for all the help and project management= . > Andrew Turner for technical input and numerous code reviews. > Andy Wafaa (ARM), Prasun Kapoor and Larry Wikelius (Cavium) for their > support and help with the hardware. > Rafal Jaworowski (Semihalf) for putting this project together. > > > PS. You may also be interested in checking out our entry on ARM > community blog about this work: > > https://community.arm.com/groups/processors/blog/2015/10/27/semihalfs-arm= 64-blog-1-the-freebsd-on-the-96-cpu-armv8-soc > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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