Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 13:14:45 +0100 From: Zbigniew Bodek <zbb@semihalf.com> To: Jan Sieka <jan.sieka@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Cavium ThunderX support in the tree Message-ID: <CAG7dG%2BxF0gmbTfXuGmRHPNR7hMnW7rxWSwBU9DrRyGmbUh6%2B6w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGeh=dW_ykiMGJA=BMmOm=hCUFrBar7Ov_uYsQ8rDRBr0HZGgA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAG7dG%2BxzC_SGiFtncTd7tbi_VqmyXj_08JY34hKFDkvnSg1PPw@mail.gmail.com> <CAGeh=dW_ykiMGJA=BMmOm=hCUFrBar7Ov_uYsQ8rDRBr0HZGgA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello Jan! Thanks. Regarding pkgs then we do not have our own setup. We use WIP prebuilt packages provided by the FreeBSD guys at: http://dirty.ysv.freebsd.org/packages/11aarch64-default Best regards zbb 2015-11-06 0:34 GMT+01:00 Jan Sieka <jan.sieka@gmail.com>: > Congratulations! > > This is a great achievement. I smiled when I saw hw.ncpu :). One thing th= at > interested me is the pkg command: do you use some official pkg repo or yo= u > 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 managemen= t. >> 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-ar= m64-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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