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Date:      Tue, 7 Mar 2017 13:32:18 +0100
From:      Jan Bramkamp <crest@rlwinm.de>
To:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AMD Ryzen 7 support
Message-ID:  <8b4f12da-6ee7-5ead-9d13-d5d03453a92e@rlwinm.de>
In-Reply-To: <0efc91ca-f09c-2f76-c3a3-d9ff21018836@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <a605c48c-577f-2eba-cd10-f92397ba30bd@fizk.net> <0efc91ca-f09c-2f76-c3a3-d9ff21018836@FreeBSD.org>

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On 07/03/2017 10:55, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> On 07/03/2017 05:10, Yonas Yanfa wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does FreeBSD 11 or CURRENT support the new AMD Ryzen 7 processor?
>
> We don't know.
> AMD hasn't given us any documentation or patches for Ryzen.

I remember reading that the Linux diff for Ryzen was very small because 
its "just" CPU without a GPU and was limited to adding support to 
northbridge driver and to tread the on-chip I/O like a northbridge with 
a new PCI-ID and. And a bugfix in the scheduler logic added to improve 
performance on Bulldozer based AMD system with reduces performance on Zen.



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