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

> > > > 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.
[...]
> > HardenedBSD bought theirs from Phoenics Electronics.
> >
> > Status of HardenedBSD's ThunderX2:
> >
> I emailed Phoenics Electronics and received an email from Steve Wilson. He
> pointed me to these little beauties:
> 
>  https://www.asacomputers.com/Cavium-ThunderX.html

Well, to say the truth, I'm a bit confused by all this choice 8-}

This page:

https://b2b.gigabyte.com/ARM-Server/R181-T90-rev-100#ov

says that there's a difference between ThunderX and ThunderX2.

The asa-systems are much cheaper, but are not ThunderX2, right ?

> https://www.marvell.com/server-processors/thunderx-arm-processors/thunderx-nt/

Yes, what's x-nt now ? Something between X and X2 ? Something beyond ?

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