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Hardware and Performance / Re: Intel Atom P5000 / P5322 Support
« on: November 16, 2023, 07:13:37 am »
Sorry to resurrect a 5 month old thread, but the content I wanted to provide seemed worth the discomfort of bringing back an old thread:
I too had a A3SPI-8C-LN6PF based motherboard which didn't work with HBSD 14 or FreeBSD 14 several months back.
(It worked fine with many new Linux based systems at the time.)
SuperMicro has not yet updated this to show FreeBSD 14 seems to work on it, but this is what SuperMicro claimed was supported when the motherboards were made and no FreeBSD support listed at all:
https://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/OS/Parker_Ridge_Intel_Atom_C5000.cfm
However, I recently re-tested with Hardened BSD 14 (latest) and it worked for me.
I also included a full buildworld, buildkernel and install both with CPU arch optimizations in /etc/make.conf for the cpu. (The Atom CPU Type was tremont)
If Hardened BSD 14 (based on FreeBSD 14) works now with this motherboard, that implies FreeBSD 14 will probably work now for the same class of motherboards.
According to https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/schedule/ FreeBSD 14 release annoucement was planned for yesterday, but maybe isn't quite ready.
Issuing a "uname -K" on an OPNSense system which is still on 23.7.7_3 (not yet upgraded to 23.7.8_1) and I see:
1302001
This puts OPNSense squarely in the middle of some variation of FreeBSD or related version 13.x kernel.
According to https://opnsense.org/about/road-map/ , as of right now, the plans for OPNSense 24.1.x is January 2024, but it does not indicate a move to 14 will be included. OPNSense 23.7.x is reported earlier in the doc as being based on FreeBSD 13.2.
If OPNSense installer does not yet work on your motherboard, maybe wait until OPNSense is based on a *BSD version 14 installer or later.
Hopefully this will help you or others looking to get this class of motherboard to work with OPNSense.
Good luck!
I too had a A3SPI-8C-LN6PF based motherboard which didn't work with HBSD 14 or FreeBSD 14 several months back.
(It worked fine with many new Linux based systems at the time.)
SuperMicro has not yet updated this to show FreeBSD 14 seems to work on it, but this is what SuperMicro claimed was supported when the motherboards were made and no FreeBSD support listed at all:
https://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/OS/Parker_Ridge_Intel_Atom_C5000.cfm
However, I recently re-tested with Hardened BSD 14 (latest) and it worked for me.
I also included a full buildworld, buildkernel and install both with CPU arch optimizations in /etc/make.conf for the cpu. (The Atom CPU Type was tremont)
If Hardened BSD 14 (based on FreeBSD 14) works now with this motherboard, that implies FreeBSD 14 will probably work now for the same class of motherboards.
According to https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/schedule/ FreeBSD 14 release annoucement was planned for yesterday, but maybe isn't quite ready.
Issuing a "uname -K" on an OPNSense system which is still on 23.7.7_3 (not yet upgraded to 23.7.8_1) and I see:
1302001
This puts OPNSense squarely in the middle of some variation of FreeBSD or related version 13.x kernel.
According to https://opnsense.org/about/road-map/ , as of right now, the plans for OPNSense 24.1.x is January 2024, but it does not indicate a move to 14 will be included. OPNSense 23.7.x is reported earlier in the doc as being based on FreeBSD 13.2.
If OPNSense installer does not yet work on your motherboard, maybe wait until OPNSense is based on a *BSD version 14 installer or later.
Hopefully this will help you or others looking to get this class of motherboard to work with OPNSense.
Good luck!