FreeBSD on AMD Epyc boards

2018-02-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
To have a bit of a work around for the Intel Meltdown bug (yes, no Spectre), I wanted to try out some AMD based CPUs. So far so good using a SuperMicro H11SSL-i. A decent server board using an Epyc CPU. All the things you need and expect for a server grade MB ipmi to provide remote management (

Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ? (with sort of workaround)

2018-02-13 Thread Eric van Gyzen
On 02/12/2018 21:54, Peter Moody wrote: >> I'm having really good luck with the kernel patch attached to this >> message: >> https://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=417183+0+archive/2018/freebsd-hackers/20180211.freebsd-hackers > > I'm new to this; what are the chances that this gets into -S

Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ? (summary of 4 issues) (seemingly solved!)

2018-02-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
OK, this is all mostly solved for me it seems. points below inline On 1/24/2018 9:42 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote: > I think perhaps a good time to summarize as a few issues seem to be going on > > a) fragile BIOS settings. There seems to be a number of issues around > RAM speeds and disabled C-STATES