FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE Hardware Notes

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Table of Contents

1. +Introduction
2. Supported Processors and +System Boards
3. Supported +Devices

1. Introduction

This document contains the hardware compatibility notes for +FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE. It lists the hardware platforms supported by +FreeBSD, as well as the various types of hardware devices (storage +controllers, network interfaces, and so on), along with known +working instances of these devices.

2. Supported Processors and +System Boards

This section provides some architecture-specific information +about the specific processors and systems that are supported by +each architecture.

2.1. amd64

Since mid-2003 FreeBSD/amd64 has supported the AMD64 +(“Hammer”) +and Intel® EM64T architecture, and +is now one of the Tier-1 platforms (fully supported architecture), +which are expected to be Production Quality with respects to all +aspects of the FreeBSD operating system, including installation and +development environments.

Note that there are two names for this architecture, AMD64 (AMD) +and Intel EM64T (Extended Memory 64-bit Technology). 64-bit mode of +the two architectures are almost compatible with each other, and +FreeBSD/amd64 should support them both.

As of this writing, the following processors are supported:

+
AMD Athlon™64 (“Clawhammer”).
+
+
AMD Opteron™ (“Sledgehammer”).
+
+
All multi-core Intel® +Xeon™ processors except Sossaman +have EM64T support.
+
+
The single-core Intel® +Xeon™ processors “Nocona”, “Irwindale”, “Potomac”, and +“Cranford” +have EM64T support.
+
+
All Intel® Core 2 (not Core Duo) +and later processors
+
+
All Intel® Pentium® D processors
+
+
Intel® Pentium® 4s and Celeron Ds using the +“Cedar Mill” +core have EM64T support.
+
+
Some Intel® Pentium® 4s and Celeron Ds using the +“Prescott” +core have EM64T support. See the Intel Processor +Spec Finder for the definitive answer about EM64T support in +Intel processors.
+

Intel® EM64T is an extended +version of IA-32 (x86) and different from Intel® IA-64 (Itanium) architecture, which +FreeBSD/ia64 supports. Some Intel®'s +old documentation refers to Intel® +EM64T as “64-bit extension +technology” or “IA-32e”.

Both Uniprocessor (UP) and Symmetric Multi-processor (SMP) +configurations are supported.

In many respects, FreeBSD/amd64 is similar to FreeBSD/i386, in +terms of drivers supported. Generally, drivers that already +function correctly on other 64-bit platforms should work.

2.2. i386

FreeBSD/i386 runs on a wide variety of “IBM PC compatible” +machines. Due to the wide range of hardware available for this +architecture, it is impossible to exhaustively list all +combinations of equipment supported by FreeBSD. Nevertheless, some +general guidelines are presented here.

Almost all i386™-compatible +processors with a floating point unit are supported. All +Intel® processors beginning with the +80486 are supported, including the 80486, Pentium®, Pentium® Pro, Pentium® II, Pentium® III, Pentium® 4, and variants thereof, such as the +Xeon™ and Celeron® processors. All i386™-compatible AMD processors are also +supported, including the Am486®, +Am5x86®, K5, AMD-K6® (and variants), AMD Athlon™ (including Athlon-MP, +Athlon-XP, Athlon-4, and Athlon Thunderbird), and AMD Duron™ processors. The AMD Élan SC520 +embedded processor is supported. The Transmeta Crusoe is recognized +and supported, as are i386™-compatible processors from Cyrix and +NexGen.

There is a wide variety of motherboards available for this +architecture. Motherboards using the ISA, VLB, EISA, AGP, and PCI +expansion buses are well-supported. There is some limited support +for the MCA (“MicroChannel”) expansion bus used in the IBM +PS/2 line of PCs.

Symmetric multi-processor (SMP) systems are generally supported +by FreeBSD, although in some cases, BIOS or motherboard bugs may +generate some problems. Perusal of the archives of the FreeBSD symmetric multiprocessing mailing list may yield +some clues.

FreeBSD will take advantage of HyperThreading (HTT) support on +Intel® CPUs that support this +feature. A kernel with the options SMP feature enabled will +automatically detect the additional logical processors. The default +FreeBSD scheduler treats the logical processors the same as +additional physical processors; in other words, no attempt is made +to optimize scheduling decisions given the shared resources between +logical processors within the same CPU. Because this naive +scheduling can result in suboptimal performance, under certain +circumstances it may be useful to disable the logical processors +with the machdep.hyperthreading_allowed tunable. The + +smp(4) manual page +has more details.

FreeBSD will take advantage of Physical Address Extensions (PAE) +support on CPUs that support this feature. A kernel with the +PAE feature enabled will detect memory +above 4 gigabytes and allow it to be used by the system. This +feature places constraints on the device drivers and other features +of FreeBSD which may be used; consult the +pae(4) manual page +for more details.

FreeBSD will generally run on i386-based laptops, albeit with +varying levels of support for certain hardware features such as +sound, graphics, power management, and PCCARD expansion slots. +These features tend to vary in idiosyncratic ways between machines, +and frequently require special-case support in FreeBSD to work +around hardware bugs or other oddities. When in doubt, a search of +the archives of the FreeBSD laptop computer mailing list may be useful.

Most modern laptops (as well as many desktops) use the Advanced +Configuration and Power Management (ACPI) standard. FreeBSD +supports ACPI via the ACPI Component Architecture reference +implementation from Intel®, as +described in the +acpi(4) manual page. +The use of ACPI causes instabilities on some machines and it may be +necessary to disable the ACPI driver, which is normally loaded via +a kernel module. This may be accomplished by adding the following +line to /boot/device.hints:

hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"

Users debugging ACPI-related problems may find it useful to +disable portions of the ACPI functionality. The +acpi(4) manual page +has more information on how to do this via loader tunables.

ACPI depends on a Differentiated System Descriptor Table (DSDT) +provided by each machine's BIOS. Some machines have bad or +incomplete DSDTs, which prevents ACPI from functioning correctly. +Replacement DSDTs for some machines can be found at the DSDT section of the ACPI4Linux project +Web site. FreeBSD can use these DSDTs to override the DSDT provided +by the BIOS; see the +acpi(4) manual page +for more information.

2.3. ia64

Currently supported processors are the Itanium® and the +Itanium® 2.

Supported chipsets include:

+
HP zx1
+
+
Intel® 460GX
+
+
Intel® E8870
+

Both Uniprocessor (UP) and Symmetric Multi-processor (SMP) +configurations are supported.

Most devices that can be found in or are compatible with ia64 +machines are fully supported. The notable exception is the VGA +console. The FreeBSD support for VGA consoles is at this time too +much based on PC hardware and not all ia64 machines have chipsets +that provide sufficient PC legacy support. As such +syscons(4) can not be enabled and +the use of a serial console is required.

2.4. pc98

NEC PC-9801/9821 series with almost all i386™-compatible processors, including 80486, +Pentium®, Pentium® Pro, Pentium® II, and variants. All i386™-compatible processors by AMD, Cyrix, IBM, +and IDT are also supported.

NEC FC-9801/9821 series, and NEC SV-98 series (both of them are +compatible with PC-9801/9821 series) should be supported.

EPSON PC-386/486/586 series, which are compatible with NEC +PC-9801 series are supported.

High-resolution mode is not supported. NEC PC-98XA/XL/RL/XL^2, +and NEC PC-H98 series are supported in normal (PC-9801 compatible) +mode only.

Although there are some multi-processor systems (such as +Rs20/B20), SMP-related features of FreeBSD are not supported +yet.

PC-9801/9821 standard bus (called C-Bus), PC-9801NOTE expansion +bus (110pin), and PCI bus are supported. New Extend Standard +Architecture (NESA) bus (used in PC-H98, SV-H98, and FC-H98 series) +is not supported.

2.5. powerpc

This section describes the systems currently known to be +supported by FreeBSD on the PowerPC platform. This list is not +exhaustive.

In general, all New World architecture Apple hardware is +supported, as well a limited selection of non-Apple machines.

All systems listed below are fully supported, with the exception +that software fan control is currently missing on some Power +Macintosh G5 models. SMP is supported on all systems with more than +1 processor.

+
Apple iMac G3
+
+
Apple iMac G4
+
+
Apple iMac G5
+
+
Apple Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White)
+
+
Apple Power Macintosh G4
+
+
Apple Power Macintosh G5
+
+
Apple iBook G3
+
+
Apple iBook G4
+
+
Apple PowerBook G3 (Lombard and Pismo)
+
+
Apple PowerBook G4
+
+
Apple XServe G4
+
+
Apple XServe G5
+
+
Apple Mac Mini
+
+
Embedded boards based on MPC85XX
+

2.6. sparc64

This section describes the systems currently known to be +supported by FreeBSD on the Fujitsu SPARC64® and Sun UltraSPARC® platforms. For background +information on the various hardware designs see the Sun System Handbook.

SMP is supported on all systems with more than 1 processor.

When using the GENERIC kernel, +FreeBSD/sparc64 systems not equipped with a framebuffer supported +by the +creator(4) (Sun Creator, Sun +Creator3D and Sun Elite3D) or +machfb(4) (Sun PGX and Sun PGX64 +as well as the ATI Mach64 chips found onboard in for example +Sun Blade™ 100, Sun Blade™ 150, Sun Ultra™ 5 and Sun Ultra™ 10) driver must use the serial +console.

If you have a system that is not listed here, it may not have +been tested with FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE. We encourage you to try it +and send a note to the FreeBSD SPARC porting mailing list with your results, +including which devices work and which do not.

The following systems are fully supported by FreeBSD:

+
Naturetech GENIALstation 777S
+
+
Sun Blade™ 100
+
+
Sun Blade™ 150
+
+
Sun Enterprise™ 150
+
+
Sun Enterprise™ 220R
+
+
Sun Enterprise™ 250
+
+
Sun Enterprise™ 420R
+
+
Sun Enterprise™ 450
+
+
Sun Fire™ B100s (support for +the on-board NICs first appeared in 8.1-RELEASE)
+
+
Sun Fire™ V100
+
+
Sun Fire™ V120
+
+
Sun Netra™ t1 100/105
+
+
Sun Netra™ T1 AC200/DC200
+
+
Sun Netra™ t 1100
+
+
Sun Netra™ t 1120
+
+
Sun Netra™ t 1125
+
+
Sun Netra™ t 1400/1405
+
+
Sun Netra™ 120
+
+
Sun Netra™ X1
+
+
Sun SPARCengine® Ultra AX1105
+
+
Sun SPARCengine® Ultra AXe
+
+
Sun SPARCengine® Ultra AXi
+
+
Sun SPARCengine® Ultra AXmp
+
+
Sun SPARCengine® CP1500
+
+
Sun Ultra™ 1
+
+
Sun Ultra™ 1E
+
+
Sun Ultra™ 2
+
+
Sun Ultra™ 5
+
+
Sun Ultra™ 10
+
+
Sun Ultra™ 30
+
+
Sun Ultra™ 60
+
+
Sun Ultra™ 80
+
+
Sun Ultra™ 450
+

The following systems are partially supported by FreeBSD. In +particular the fiber channel controllers in SBus-based systems are +not supported. However, it is possible to use these with a SCSI +controller supported by the +esp(4) driver (Sun +ESP SCSI, Sun FAS Fast-SCSI and Sun FAS366 Fast-Wide SCSI +controllers).

+
Sun Enterprise™ 3500
+
+
Sun Enterprise™ 4500
+

Starting with 7.2-RELEASE, sparc64 systems based on Sun +UltraSPARC® III and beyond are also +supported by FreeBSD, which includes the following known working +systems:

+
Sun Blade™ 1000
+
+
Sun Blade™ 1500
+
+
Sun Blade™ 2000
+
+
Sun Blade™ 2500
+
+
Sun Fire™ 280R
+
+
Sun Fire™ V210
+
+
Sun Fire™ V215 (support +first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE)
+
+
Sun Fire™ V240
+
+
Sun Fire™ V245 (support +first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE)
+
+
Sun Fire™ V250
+
+
Sun Fire™ V440 (support for +the on-board NICs first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and +8.0-RELEASE)
+
+
Sun Fire™ V480 (501-6780 and +501-6790 centerplanes only, for which support first appeared in +7.3-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, other centerplanes might work +beginning with 8.3-RELEASE and 9.0-RELEASE)
+
+
Sun Fire™ V880
+
+
Sun Fire™ V890 (support +first appeared in 7.4-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, non-mixed +UltraSPARC® IV/IV+ +CPU-configurations only)
+
+
Netra™ 20/Netra™ T4
+

The following Sun UltraSPARC® +systems are not tested but believed to be also supported by +FreeBSD:

+
Sun Fire™ V125
+
+
Sun Fire™ V490 (support +first appeared in 7.4-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, non-mixed +UltraSPARC® IV/IV+ +CPU-configurations only)
+

Starting with 7.4-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, sparc64 systems based +on Fujitsu SPARC64® V are also +supported by FreeBSD, which includes the following known working +systems:

+
Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER® 250
+

The following Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER® +systems are not tested but believed to be also supported by +FreeBSD:

+
Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER® 450
+
+
Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER® 650
+
+
Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER® 850
+

3. Supported Devices

This section describes the devices currently known to be +supported by FreeBSD. Other configurations may also work, but +simply have not been tested yet. Feedback, updates, and corrections +to this list are encouraged.

Where possible, the drivers applicable to each device or class +of devices is listed. If the driver in question has a manual page +in the FreeBSD base distribution (most should), it is referenced +here. Information on specific models of supported devices, +controllers, etc. can be found in the manual pages.

Note:

The device lists in this +document are being generated automatically from FreeBSD manual +pages. This means that some devices, which are supported by +multiple drivers, may appear multiple times.

3.1. Disk Controllers

[amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, sparc64] IDE/ATA controllers +(ata(4) +driver)

[pc98] IDE/ATA controllers (wdc driver)

+
On-board IDE controller
+

[i386,ia64,amd64] Controllers supported by the +aac(4) driver +include:

+
Adaptec AAC-364
+
+
Adaptec RAID 2045
+
+
Adaptec RAID 2405
+
+
Adaptec RAID 2445
+
+
Adaptec RAID 2805
+
+
Adaptec RAID 3085
+
+
Adaptec RAID 31205
+
+
Adaptec RAID 31605
+
+
Adaptec RAID 5085
+
+
Adaptec RAID 51205
+
+
Adaptec RAID 51245
+
+
Adaptec RAID 51605
+
+
Adaptec RAID 51645
+
+
Adaptec RAID 52445
+
+
Adaptec RAID 5405
+
+
Adaptec RAID 5445
+
+
Adaptec RAID 5805
+
+
Adaptec SAS RAID 3405
+
+
Adaptec SAS RAID 3805
+
+
Adaptec SAS RAID 4000SAS
+
+
Adaptec SAS RAID 4005SAS
+
+
Adaptec SAS RAID 4800SAS
+
+
Adaptec SAS RAID 4805SAS
+
+
Adaptec SATA RAID 2020SA ZCR
+
+
Adaptec SATA RAID 2025SA ZCR
+
+
Adaptec SATA RAID 2026ZCR
+
+
Adaptec SATA RAID 2410SA
+
+
Adaptec SATA RAID 2420SA
+
+
Adaptec SATA RAID 2610SA
+
+
Adaptec SATA RAID 2620SA
+
+
Adaptec SATA RAID 2810SA
+
+
Adaptec SATA RAID 2820SA
+
+
Adaptec SATA RAID 21610SA
+
+
Adaptec SCSI RAID 2020ZCR
+
+
Adaptec SCSI RAID 2025ZCR
+
+
Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S
+
+
Adaptec SCSI RAID 2130S
+
+
Adaptec SCSI RAID 2130SLP
+
+
Adaptec SCSI RAID 2230SLP
+
+
Adaptec SCSI RAID 2200S
+
+
Adaptec SCSI RAID 2240S
+
+
Adaptec SCSI RAID 3230S
+
+
Adaptec SCSI RAID 3240S
+
+
Adaptec SCSI RAID 5400S
+
+
Dell CERC SATA RAID 2
+
+
Dell PERC 2/Si
+
+
Dell PERC 2/QC
+
+
Dell PERC 3/Si
+
+
Dell PERC 3/Di
+
+
Dell PERC 320/DC
+
+
HP ML110 G2 (Adaptec SATA RAID 2610SA)
+
+
HP NetRAID 4M
+
+
IBM ServeRAID 8i
+
+
IBM ServeRAID 8k
+
+
IBM ServeRAID 8s
+
+
ICP RAID ICP5045BL
+
+
ICP RAID ICP5085BL
+
+
ICP RAID ICP5085SL
+
+
ICP RAID ICP5125BR
+
+
ICP RAID ICP5125SL
+
+
ICP RAID ICP5165BR
+
+
ICP RAID ICP5165SL
+
+
ICP RAID ICP5445SL
+
+
ICP RAID ICP5805BL
+
+
ICP RAID ICP5805SL
+
+
ICP ICP5085BR SAS RAID
+
+
ICP ICP9085LI SAS RAID
+
+
ICP ICP9047MA SATA RAID
+
+
ICP ICP9067MA SATA RAID
+
+
ICP ICP9087MA SATA RAID
+
+
ICP ICP9014RO SCSI RAID
+
+
ICP ICP9024RO SCSI RAID
+
+
Legend S220
+
+
Legend S230
+
+
Sun STK RAID REM
+