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From: Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org>
To: "Jayachandran C." <jchandra@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: ThunderX2 support in FreeBSD/arm64
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Hi!

> Over the last few weeks I have committed changes for a few outstanding
> items needed for ThunderX2 support in FreeBSD/arm64. Most of the
> changes were to fix-up support for ACPI based PCI controllers and to
> enable ACPI based NUMA (thanks to andrew, markj and jhb for reviews).
> 
> With these, 13-CURRENT works well enough for testing - so if you have
> access to a ThunderX2, I would like to hear how well it works for you.

Can you tell suggest possible systems/supplier to choose for a port
builder box ?

I'm mulling over buying such a system to testbuild freebsd ports on arm64
and look around for possible suppliers.

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