From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Wed Aug 9 13:11:51 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@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 60C7EDCCBD2 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2017 13:11:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (elsa.codelab.cz [94.124.105.4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D417171990 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2017 13:11:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A63F28458; Wed, 9 Aug 2017 15:11:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from illbsd.quip.test (ip-86-49-16-209.net.upcbroadband.cz [86.49.16.209]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6D40628454; Wed, 9 Aug 2017 15:11:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: Is it worth waiting for AMD Opteron X3000 support in FreeBSD? Bug [221350] To: Rafal Lukawiecki , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Message-ID: <598B0A0C.1040008@quip.cz> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 15:11:40 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0 SeaMonkey/2.39 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2017 13:11:51 -0000 Rafal Lukawiecki wrote on 2017/08/09 14:47: > > Apologies if this is the wrong way to approach the FreeBSD community wisdom: I am new here, please forgive. I am unable to boot/install FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img (dated 2017-July-21) on a brand-new HPE MicroServer Gen10 containing an AMD Opteron X3421. Boot hangs very early in the process. I have described the issue, and all remedies that I have tried, in detail on the forum (https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/61936/) and I have logged a bugzilla bug [221350]. It has been suggested to me that FreeBSD might not yet support this new AMD processor, or that it has issues with the chipset. As this is equipment from a major vendor, I wonder if it is likely that it would be supported at some stage in the *near* future. > > Although I am somewhat new to FreeBSD, I have 30+ years of dev/OS/crypto/AI experience (way back from System V) and I would be willing and hopefully able to help debug this issue if it is at all likely that I could get support for it from the FreeBSD developers. > > May I politely ask if in your opinion this equipment is likely to be supported soon? If not, I will return it to the vendor and use something a little older. If this is the wrong place to ask, please kindly direct me to the correct mailing list. > > The full details with boot console outputs: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/61936/ > > Bugzilla bug: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221350 I suggest you to test booting with fresh image of CURRENT (12.0). You can find it on ftp.freebsd.org /pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0 Or you can try to boot some older ISO like 10.3. I remember some regression years ago with booting problem on newer version. Miroslav Lachman