ThunderX2 from Gigabyte

[Russell Haley]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 1:51 PM Shawn Webb <shawn.webb at 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


>
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