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Date:      Wed, 9 Aug 2017 13:47:15 +0100
From:      Rafal Lukawiecki <raf@rafal.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Is it worth waiting for AMD Opteron X3000 support in FreeBSD? Bug [221350] 
Message-ID:  <CE97377F-06B4-43E9-A242-3B59A7BD0733@rafal.net>

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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.

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.

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.

The full details with boot console outputs: =
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/61936/

Bugzilla bug: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D221350

Regards from Ireland,
Rafal Lukawiecki=20=



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