From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Thu Nov 5 23:34:28 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75DFBA279BD for ; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 23:34:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jan.sieka@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qg0-x234.google.com (mail-qg0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c04::234]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3215B147A for ; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 23:34:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jan.sieka@gmail.com) Received: by qgad10 with SMTP id d10so79604245qga.3 for ; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:34:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=0rzZQw9I9a9O7M/fpmJianjj6Ij2UIUIo8XJRTbvQ48=; b=PjFbpLDdu9E377rkWwAqkpexhVGtBlLrLiZeFHvB64qyNrOSCnNuafa2hMs8zo5BKQ +RLsWb8aLw0rHa3VWBfEBfgoPXF7763G1QM+7wyCGqKwFUHX9GL2+2xTnHeolA7ysQ0I u+Beiqt1TyxVEjEgYLQrFdduBDBq7r+sbrD0huerXcl+02BBz+bEW1OctQi8RyoIQexv i71ONloDSVrMEHB/WroxTrCjvV/khEjpQ4SiG4dL+0qR0IiOZxkvExo3y8U3U9xDsZpN Zw8UgtFEGYoBRzVXEc+oNwLGW2k0FYr2m8xi5tymbSWJOu/y3yICk+qLu0YVZmyOSsoa CHHQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.140.174.195 with SMTP id u186mr10850411qhu.47.1446766467270; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:34:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.55.160.73 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 15:34:27 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 00:34:27 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Cavium ThunderX support in the tree From: Jan Sieka To: Zbigniew Bodek Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 23:34:28 -0000 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 : > 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" >