freebsd stable - Aug 2017 - Is it worth waiting for AMD Opteron X3000 support in FreeBSD? Bug [221350]

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=221350

Regards from Ireland,
Rafal Lukawiecki

Hi!
> The full details with boot console outputs:
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/61936/
> 
> Bugzilla bug: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221350
Please compare with

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213155
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213333
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214242

If this matches your problem, Martin Waschbuesch is working
with the FreeBSD Foundation and Ed Maste to get this reproduced
and fixed.

If this does not match, please give a short heads up -- if possible,
elaborate.

-- 
pi at opsec.eu            +49 171 3101372                         3 years to go
!

Rafal Lukawiecki wrote on 2017/08/09 14:47:
>
> 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=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