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Date:      Tue, 22 Jan 2019 09:51:30 +0000
From:      Uni Gaia <unigaia@fastmail.jp>
To:        Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ThunderX2 from Gigabyte
Message-ID:  <56a0c15d-e6d3-6532-afc1-fc30ca6cae2d@fastmail.jp>
In-Reply-To: <20190121214952.ydaosvvy3yelioui@mutt-hbsd>
References:  <8645D409-9FC2-439B-915F-0C7551AAE9D0@freebsd.org> <20190121214423.GC91207@home.opsec.eu> <20190121214952.ydaosvvy3yelioui@mutt-hbsd>

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On 1/21/19 9:49 PM, Shawn Webb 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> 


Just adding a data point expressing interest in FreeBSD working with 
this hardware, and gratitude that someone with the right skillset is 
working on this.

Exciting times where non-intel hardware (arm, arm64, openpower) is 
slowly making its way to the operating system.



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