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| Manufacturer | Model | Northbridge Chipset / Socket | Submitter (optional links) | Tested FreeBSD version | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abit | AV8 | VIA K8T800 / Socket 939 | Daniel O'Connor | 5.3-RELEASE | On-board ethernet controller (vge(4)) does not work unless statically compiled into kernel. |
| Abit | AX8 | VIA K8T890 / Socket 939 | Joel Dahl | 6-CURRENT (July 05) | Integrated NIC does not work, otherwise fully functional. |
| Abit | KV8 Pro | VIA K8T800 / Socket 754 | Andrew Pantyukhin (dmesg) | 5.4-RELEASE, 6.0-BETA | vge driver still have some minor issues both on 5.4 and 6.0. |
| Asrock | 939Dual-SATA2 | ULi 1695 / Socket 939 | Martin Matuska (dmesg) | 6.0-RELEASE | Onboard ethernet and audio are not supported. |
| Asrock | K8Upgrade-1689 | ULi 1689 / Socket 754 | Paul Norcott | 6.0-RELEASE | |
| Asus | A8N-E | nVidia nForce4 Ultra / Socket 939 | Stanislav Nadelyaev (dmesg) | 6.0-BETA5 | On-board nForce ethernet controller (nve(4)) works fine. SATA works fine. |
| Asus | A8N-SLI | nVidia nForce4 SLI / Socket 939 | Alex Pirvulescu | 6.0-BETA3 | On-board nForce ethernet controller (nve(4)) hangs with timeout, SATA works, RAID not tested. |
| Asus | A8N-SLI Deluxe | nVidia nForce4 SLI / Socket 939 | Florent Thoumie (dmesg) | 5.4-STABLE | On-board nForce ethernet controller will only work with nve(4) which is only in 6-CURRENT (as of Apr 2005). On-board nForce SATA RAID controller works with 6-CURRENT of June 6 2005 and newer. On-board SiI 3114R SATA RAID controller untested. Sound works (snd_ich driver). |
| Asus | A8V Deluxe | VIA K8T800 / Socket 939 | Sangwoo Shim (dmesg), Brian Thomas (dmesg) | 5.4-STABLE, 6-CURRENT (Apr 2005) | Functional. |
| Asus | A8V-E Deluxe | VIA K8T890 / Socket 939 | Dejan Lesjak (dmesg, pciconf, sndstat) | 6-CURRENT (Jul 2005) | SATA ports recognized but not tested, onboard RAID not tested. Onboard NIC (Marvell 88E8053) not recognized. Onboard wireless (Marvell) not recognized, ndis unsuccessful. Onboard sound works. |
| Asus | A8V-MX | VIA K8M800 / Socket 939 | Martin Matuska (dmesg) | 6.0-RELEASE | ACPI not functional, if the APIC mapping is disabled in BIOS the board does not panic with ACPI enabled in kernel. Onboard SATA gets recognized as GENERIC ATA only, does not work with SATA RAID BOOTROM enabled in BIOS. Onboard ethernet controller is functional. |
| Asus | K8S-MX | SiS 760GX / Socket 754 | Charles-André Landemaine | 5.4-RELEASE | FreeBSD can't be installed, SiS SATA controller is not recognized. |
| Asus | K8V SE Deluxe | VIA K8T800 / Socket 754 | Clément Martin (dmesg) | 5.4-STABLE | xmbmon does not autodetect correct monitoring mode, needs -I flag. |
| Asus | K8V-X | VIA K8T800 / Socket 754 | Joseph Koshy | 5.4-STABLE | On-board audio untested. The on-board sk0 ethernet controller had issues with 5.3-RELEASE. |
| Celestica | A2210-SCSI | AMD 8111/8131 / Socket 940 - 2x Opteron | Joshua Myles (details) | 5.4-RELEASE | Similar to HP ProLiant DL145. |
| Gigabyte | GA-7A8DW | AMD 8111/8131/8151 / Socket 940 - 2x Opteron | Eric Toll | 5.4-RELEASE | On-board SiI SATA controller untested, it's RAID functionality unsupported (used 3ware card instead, with 3ware drivers, without issue). |
| Gigabyte | GA-K8NF-9 | nVidia nForce 4 / Socket 939 | Niels (dmesg) | 6.0-BETA4 | |
| Gigabyte | GA-K8NS | nVidia nForce3 250 / Socket 754 | Francisco Reyes | 5.4-RELEASE | On-board ethernet and RAID are not recognized, SATA without RAID works. Audio not tested. |
| Gigabyte | GA-K8NS Pro | nVidia nForce3 250 / Socket 754 | Tony Sweeney | 5.4-RELEASE | Functional. |
| Gigabyte | GA-K8NSC-939 | nVidia nForce3 250 / Socket 939 | Gary W. Swearingen | 5.4-RELEASE | Sound and USB untested. |
| Gigabyte | GA-K8NXP-SLI | nVidia nForce4 / Socket 939 | Bjoern A. Zeeb (dmesg) | 7.0-CURRENT (Oct 2005) | nve(4) not working at all, no driver for second onboard NIC (Marvell 88E8053). BIOS rev. F7 seems to be most stable, F8 and F9 break - LBA48 support, F10s (beta) stability problems (hard locks). + LBA48 support, F10s (beta) and F10 break CPUID_APIC. Audio, SATA-RAID, USB, Firewire untested. |
| Gigabyte | GA-K8VT800 | VIA K8T800 / Socket 754 | Adriaan de Groot (dmesg) | 5.3-RELEASE, 5.4-STABLE | On-board ethernet is Realtek. Sound untested, but should work. |
| Gigabyte | GA-K8VT800 Pro | VIA K8T800 / Socket 754 | Andrew Pantyukhin (dmesg) | 6.0-RELEASE | |
| HP | ProLiant BL45p blades | AMD 8111/8131 / Socket 940 - 4x Opteron | Atilla Nagy (dmesg, acpidump, pciconf) | 5.4-STABLE | Functional. |
| HP | ProLiant DL145 G1 | AMD 8111/8132 / Socket 940 - 2x Opteron | Affan Basalamah (dmesg) | 5.4-RELEASE | Works. |
| HP | ProLiant DL145 G2 | nVidia nForce 4 / Socket 940 - 2x Opteron | Atilla Nagy (dmesg) | 6.0-BETA | On-board nVidia SATA controller only works in 6.0 and newer. |
| HP | ProLiant DL360 G4 | Intel E7520 / 2x Intel Xeon EM64T | Quéniart Yann (dmesg) | 5.4-RELEASE | Functional. |
| HP | ProLiant DL380 G4 | Intel E7520 / 2x Intel Xeon EM64T | Atilla Nagy (dmesg) | 5.4-STABLE | Functional. |
| Iwill | H8501 / QK8S-8P | AMD 8111/8131 / Socket 940 - 8x Opteron | Ketrien I. Saihr-Kesenchedra | 5.3-RELEASE | System has only been boot tested remotely without console. All 8 CPUs detected, possible ACPI problems. Intel 82546EB untested. IPMI untested. |
| MSI | K8D Master-F (MS-9131) | AMD 8131/8111 / 2x Socket 940 | Guy Helmer | 5.4-RELEASE | Functional. Tested with dual Opteron 242 CPUs. |
| MSI | K8D Master3-FA4R (MS-9161) | AMD 8131/8111 / 2x Socket 940 | Guy Helmer | 5.4-RELEASE | Tested with dual Opteron 252 CPUs. SiI SATA controller untested (used SCSI drive on Adaptec 29160 instead). |
| MSI | K8M Neo-V | VIA K8M800 / Socket 754 | Mike Smith | 5.4-STABLE | Random panics caused by VIA 8237 SATA controller. Random hardlocks when playing audio. |
| MSI | K8N Neo2 Platinum | nVidia nForce 3 / Socket 939 | Roman Divacky | 6-CURRENT (April 2005) | Does not boot with ACPI. Broken IRQ tables in BIOS, ACPI does not work, PS/2 keyboard unusable. Boots with ACPI enabled in RELENG_5. |
| MSI | K8T Master2-FAR | VIA K8T800 / Socket 940 - 2x Opteron | Damian Gerow | 5.4-STABLE | Picky about memory modules. SMbus does not work. |
| MSI | K8T Neo-FSR | VIA K8T800 / Socket 754 | Roland Smith | 5.4-STABLE | Functional. |
| MSI | K8T Neo2-FIR | VIA K8T800 / Socket 939 | Pav Lucistnik (dmesg) | 5.4-STABLE | BIOS update was needed to recognize memory sticks. |
| MSI | RS480M2 | ATI Radeon XPRESS 200 / Socket 939 | Torfinn Ingolfsen (dmesg) | 5.4-STABLE | Does not boot with ACPI turned on, needs hint.apic.0.disabled="1" in /boot/loader.conf. Sound not supported, USB not tested. On-board Radeon graphics chip not supported (only VESA works). |
| Soltek | SL-K8TPro-939 | VIA K8T800 / Socket 939 | David | 5.4-STABLE | |
| Sun | Fire V20z | AMD 8111/8131 / Socket 940 - 2x Opteron | Atilla Nagy (dmesg) | 5.4-STABLE | Functional. |
| Supermicro | H8DAR-8 | AMD 8111/8131 / Socket 940 - 2x Opteron | Guy Helmer | 6.0-BETA2 | Boots stock SMP kernel. Built-in Broadcom bge interfaces seem to be working OK. Built-in AIC7902 U320 SCSI operates successfully with Seagate ST3146854LC drive (no errors or warnings). Tested with Opteron 275 (dual-core) CPUs. IDE, USB interfaces not tested. |
| Supermicro | X6DA8-G2 | Intel E7525 / 2x 604-pin FC-mPGA4 | Erik Power | 5.4-RELEASE | The default kernel included with the 5.4-RELEASE amd64 distribution does not see hard drives attached via the Intel ICH5R SATA/ATA controller. Workaround is to boot using safe mode during install and when booting default kernel. After compiling a kernel, ata(4) works fine and the system boots normally. SMP kernel installed and working. LAN, audio, USB working. ZCR not tested (no driver for Adaptec 2010-S), AIC7902 U320 SCSI not tested. |
| Supermicro | X6DHR-8G | Intel E7520 / 2x 604-pin FC-mPGA4 | Guy Helmer | 5.4-RELEASE | Boots stock SMP kernel. UP kernel must be booted in "safe mode" (or hint.apic.0.disabled="0", tried both BIOS revisions 1.2 and 1.2a). LAN working. UHCI controllers seem to cause interrupt storm. AIC7902 U320 SCSI operates successfully with Seagate ST373207LC drives (gives an "Invalid Sequencer interrupt" when probing the SCSI bus, but then continues). |
| Tyan | Thunder K8QS Pro (S4882) | AMD 8111/8131 / Socket 940 - 4x Opteron | Ulf Kieber | 5.4-RELEASE, 6.0-RELEASE | Apparently unstable on 5.4, works fine on 6.0. |
| Tyan | Thunder K8S Pro (S2882GNR, S2882UGNR) | AMD 8111/8131 / Socket 940 - 2x Opteron | Ketrien I. Saihr-Kesenchedra | 5.2.1-RELEASE, 5.3-RELEASE, 5.4-RELEASE, 5-STABLE | Onboard SCSI is aac. Tested extensively with amr(4). No stability problems. Tested to 8GB (8x1GB). IPMI Unavailable for testing. |
| Tyan | Thunder K8SR (S2881) | AMD 8111/8131 / Socket 940 - 2x Opteron | Ketrien I. Saihr-Kesenchedra | 5.2.1-RELEASE | See K8S Pro notes. The K8SR is essentially identical to the K8S Pro. IPMI unavailable for testing. |
| Tyan | Thunder K8W (S2885) | AMD 8111/8131/8151 / Socket 940 - 2x Opteron | Sean, Marc Olzheim (dmesg) | 5.4-STABLE, 6-CURRENT | Running great. |
| Tyan | Thunder K8WE (S2895) | AMD 8131 / Socket 940 - 2x Opteron | Damian Gerow | 5.3-RELEASE, 5.4-STABLE | SCSI untested. On-board nVidia ethernet controllers are not supported by net/nvnet port. ACPI required. |
| Tyan | Tiger K8W (S2875) | AMD 8111/8131/8151 / Socket 940 - 2x Opteron | Ketrien I. Saihr-Kesenchedra | 5.2.1-RELEASE | SilIm SATA untested. Early BIOS versions have ACPI problems, and may be incompatible with certain graphics cards. |
| Tyan | Tiger K8WS (S2875S) | AMD 8111/8131/8151 / Socket 940 - 2x Opteron | Ketrien I. Saihr-Kesenchedra | 5.2.1-RELEASE | SilIm SATA untested. Early BIOS versions have ACPI problems, and may be incompatible with certain graphics cards. |
| Tyan | Tomcat K8E (S2865) | nVidia nForce 4 / Socket 939 | Dieter | 6.0-BETA3 | Tested and working: rs232 console, SATA, PATA, USB, Firewire, PCI slots. Untested: onboard Ethernet, PCI-e slots, audio. X11 on onboard ATI Rage XL is not working because X.org will not use "sync on green". |
| Tyan | Tomcat K8S (S2850G2N, S2850G2NR) | AMD 8111/8131 / Socket 940 - 1x Opteron | Ketrien I. Saihr-Kesenchedra | 5.2.1-RELEASE | SilIm SATA untested. Only tested to 1GB (2x512MB). |