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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. | +
| 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 | 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-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-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. |
| HP | ProLiant BL45p blades | AMD 8111/8131 / Socket 940 - 4x Opteron | Atilla Nagy (dmesg, acpidump, pciconf) | 5.4-STABLE | Functional. |
| HP | ProLiant DL145 | AMD 8111/8132 / Socket 940 - 2x Opteron | Affan Basalamah (dmesg) | 5.4-RELEASE | Works. |
| 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 | 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). |
| Sun | Fire V20z | AMD 8111/8131 / Socket 940 - 2x Opteron | Atilla Nagy (dmesg) | 5.4-STABLE | Functional. |
| 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 | Ketrien I. Saihr-Kesenchedra | 5.2.1-RELEASE, 5.3-RELEASE, 5-STABLE | Highly unstable with 5.2.1-R. On-board mpt(4) demonstrated problems. LSI Logic Ultra320-0 ZCR supported by amr(4), stable. Broadcom occasionally glitches during normal operation if PXE is enabled and unused. Tested to 8GB. IPMI unavailable for testing. |
| 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-STABLE | SilIm SATA untested since 5.2.1. 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 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). |