From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Fri Nov 6 12:15:08 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 30F3FA27828 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2015 12:15:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbb@semihalf.com) Received: from mail-lb0-x230.google.com (mail-lb0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c04::230]) (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 A5662199C for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2015 12:15:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbb@semihalf.com) Received: by lbbkw15 with SMTP id kw15so50453841lbb.0 for ; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 04:15:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=semihalf_com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Eoc7SHRL1VLaPW4bOv68EaMqge5OOYKpEC1KO9HH+e8=; b=W0rmtjQRz9gORijUbcTiIb9+Xid4QkHj61r1nNn4I6pplA+BxcEL2xkEbJsiey0tXj H/ANy4pxdxtWYMIfmc3R2YbcG0musfnQTAZxjifxuIDhLUQHIObWt39oX3dSQVdOsZFl uT/H6emUbr+lzwJf/jlamjWerZLJxaxrjGOrk6xbm1MwpEa7fF/bkoAdw05N3kVvR+Dr w3tm7ojY/jL6Qyq/VQbqKxoiO3ZA2NwrZvAO6sqPbFg+sWlh/k9s0nuNfeXR2zsdYM6A 5KOuCJelC3xgve98T4pOx1E8PoujH98J3z3sjXb0xsZ3tlMBdTcf1FjVpwm5wyQCRViq vvTQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Eoc7SHRL1VLaPW4bOv68EaMqge5OOYKpEC1KO9HH+e8=; b=hsVo/lYI/ADdJsIpkgGGDl0Cts1e/nn43uQncIcl0rPOx6GNBgzhcqAUWBTLF+/JXC aFmI+PbXpfLavgk2+/QgahVTi8lddBTk/zvSfHTzFIJCzmMnnGr0ZDd87fWU/KxUNoOR O//i92Hn9RgRJfTvYTQLTCfoKUy291KcN9WEewi/SloXgn9RSiOmL30chuQW3qUfnua9 Dk7sexJaQarLRKPejIDKpuR/JesyepU3QIDUGV5GZYBS7nwxo5Vtp2v7dujNPEKLIP6p Dt6lJ1Bd71jNT7SJh19DMesGR9nwSDzdQJf49QAW1/IqoR3PDQg9cOYH80PpC5MEGNu6 6f/g== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlq4KlKsL58pk/71Ff87/e5PcKERAwsLkn4/F5a1RttJmfAlxJgX4YFGQ8tP4Wti9h6fdDx X-Received: by 10.112.202.35 with SMTP id kf3mr6626161lbc.19.1446812105447; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 04:15:05 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.25.91.20 with HTTP; Fri, 6 Nov 2015 04:14:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Zbigniew Bodek Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 13:14:45 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Cavium ThunderX support in the tree To: Jan Sieka Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 12:15:08 -0000 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 : > 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 : >> >> 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" > >