ThunderX2 from Gigabyte

[Marcel Flores]

> On Jan 21, 2019, at 1:58 PM, Russell Haley <russ.haley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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

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+.

-m