ThunderX2 from Gigabyte

[Michael Tuexen]

> On 22. Jan 2019, at 11:02, Naresh Bhat <nareshgbhat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> This is just FYI
> I am not sure you have missed/come across the below mail thread.
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2018-December/019172.html
Thanks for the pointer and thanks to all providing input.

I saw the thread, but since I'm contemplating to by such a hardware, I wanted
to figure out which specific machine might be a good choice...

Best regards
Michael
> 
> Regards
> -Naresh
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 3:22 PM Uni Gaia <unigaia at fastmail.jp> wrote:
> 
>> 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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