Is it worth waiting for AMD Opteron X3000 support in FreeBSD? Bug [221350]

[Miroslav Lachman]

Rafal Lukawiecki wrote on 2017/08/09 14:47:
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> Apologies if this is the wrong way to approach the FreeBSD community wisdom: I am new here, please forgive. I am unable to boot/install FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img (dated 2017-July-21) on a brand-new HPE MicroServer Gen10 containing an AMD Opteron X3421. Boot hangs very early in the process. I have described the issue, and all remedies that I have tried, in detail on the forum (https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/61936/) and I have logged a bugzilla bug [221350]. It has been suggested to me that FreeBSD might not yet support this new AMD processor, or that it has issues with the chipset. As this is equipment from a major vendor, I wonder if it is likely that it would be supported at some stage in the *near* future.
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> Although I am somewhat new to FreeBSD, I have 30+ years of dev/OS/crypto/AI experience (way back from System V) and I would be willing and hopefully able to help debug this issue if it is at all likely that I could get support for it from the FreeBSD developers.
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> May I politely ask if in your opinion this equipment is likely to be supported soon? If not, I will return it to the vendor and use something a little older. If this is the wrong place to ask, please kindly direct me to the correct mailing list.
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> The full details with boot console outputs: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/61936/
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> Bugzilla bug: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221350

I suggest you to test booting with fresh image of CURRENT (12.0).
You can find it on ftp.freebsd.org 
/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0

Or you can try to boot some older ISO like 10.3. I remember some 
regression years ago with booting problem on newer version.

Miroslav Lachman