ThunderX2 from Gigabyte

[Russell Haley]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 2:07 PM Marcel Flores <marcel at brickporch.com> wrote:

>
> > 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
>

Thanks for clarifying!

Russ


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