Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:06:26 -0800 From: Marcel Flores <marcel@brickporch.com> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ThunderX2 from Gigabyte Message-ID: <16CF392D-84F9-4FB4-8926-B7496222F29A@brickporch.com>
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> On Jan 21, 2019, at 1:58 PM, Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 1:51 PM Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org> > wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 10:44:23PM +0100, Kurt Jaeger wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>>> is there any experience with running FreeBSD on >>>> https://b2b.gigabyte.com/ARM-Server/R181-T92-rev-100#ov >>> >>> I've eyed that board as well, but did not hear any sucess stories. >> >> Work is ongoing to get FreeBSD working on the ThunderX2. I'm working >> with FreeBSD's/Cavium's Jayachandran to resolve some firmware bugs. >> We're getting pretty close, but still have a few issues to work out. >> I'm really hoping to have FreeBSD and/or HardenedBSD running on ours >> within the next month or two. >> > What manufacturer are you using for your prototype hardware? I'm trying to > discern if there are hardware differences between the aforementioned > Gigabyte server and - for instance - the ASA computers offer: > https://www.asacomputers.com/Cavium-ThunderX.html The ThunderX2 is supposedly a significant improvement over (and therefore significant change from) the ThunderX which you’ve linked from ASA — though both chips are from Cavium with boards from Gigabyte. The ThunderX seems to run FreeBSD11.2 with no issue, though I surely can’t get mine to boot 12+. -mhelp
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