ThunderX2 support in FreeBSD/arm64
Shawn Webb
shawn.webb at hardenedbsd.org
Fri Dec 21 20:06:20 UTC 2018
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 08:50:54PM +0100, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Over the last few weeks I have committed changes for a few outstanding
> > items needed for ThunderX2 support in FreeBSD/arm64. Most of the
> > changes were to fix-up support for ACPI based PCI controllers and to
> > enable ACPI based NUMA (thanks to andrew, markj and jhb for reviews).
> >
> > With these, 13-CURRENT works well enough for testing - so if you have
> > access to a ThunderX2, I would like to hear how well it works for you.
>
> Can you tell suggest possible systems/supplier to choose for a port
> builder box ?
>
> I'm mulling over buying such a system to testbuild freebsd ports on arm64
> and look around for possible suppliers.
HardenedBSD bought theirs from Phoenics Electronics.
Status of HardenedBSD's ThunderX2:
Almost booting stock FreeBSD. I'm working with Jayachandran to resolve
the issues. It may be that my system has buggy firmware, but
Jayachandran is verifying whether that's the case.
Thanks,
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Shawn Webb
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