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

Wed Aug 9 17:40:30 UTC 2017

Following suggestion by Miroslav Lachman I have tested a few other releases of FreeBSD to see if this issue still persists, and if it was perhaps a regression. Unfortunately, in all the tests, 9.3-12.0-CURRENT, I get exactly the same error. The initial boot stops after displaying messages about ACPI or pcib0 memory detection.

To be precise, these are the versions that I have just tested, in all cases having validated the integrity of the download:

FreeBSD-9.3-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img
FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img
FreeBSD-11.1-STABLE-amd64-20170807-r322164-memstick.img
FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20170807-r322167-memstick.img

I have updated the bug [221350] description at: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221350

Please advise me @wishmaster, and anyone else, if in your opinion I should start a new discussion on another, more appropriate FreeBSD mailing list. Thank you for your kind help.