Cavium, Inc. Cavium ThunderX CRB, ver 2.0 , Dual Socket Server

Server system certified with Ubuntu

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The Cavium, Inc. Cavium ThunderX CRB, ver 2.0 , Dual Socket Server with the components described below has been awarded the status of certified for Ubuntu.

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Kernel

This system was tested with 18.04 LTS, running the 4.15.0-20-generic kernel.

Notes

This system was certified with acpi set to "force" at boot time. To set this, pass the following as a kernel parameter at boot time: 'acpi=force' To get the best performance from the network devices on this system, you will need to set the following parameter: 'iommu.passthrough=1'

Hardware

Network		Cavium, Inc. THUNDERX Network Interface Controller pci (177d:a01e) Cavium, Inc. THUNDERX Network Interface Controller virtual function pci (177d:a034)
Processor		aarch64 aarch64
Video		ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED Graphics Family pci (1a03:2000)
Wireless		Cavium, Inc. THUNDERX BGX (Common Ethernet Interface) pci (177d:a026) Cavium, Inc. THUNDERX Traffic Network Switch pci (177d:a01f)

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The Cavium, Inc. Cavium ThunderX CRB, ver 2.0 , Dual Socket Server with the components described below has been awarded the status of certified for Ubuntu.

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Kernel

This system was tested with 16.04 LTS, running the 4.4.0-59-generic kernel.

BIOS

American Megatrends Inc.: 5.11 (UEFI)

Notes

This system does not support automated enlistment in MAAS environments. This is because this system does not have in-band communication capabilities to the systems management controller. Therefore you will need to manually enlist this system in MAAS. After that, commissioning and deployment should proceed in an automated fashion as expected.

Hardware

Network		Cavium, Inc. THUNDERX Network Interface Controller pci (177d:a01e) Cavium, Inc. THUNDERX Network Interface Controller virtual function pci (177d:a034)
Processor		Cavium, Inc. 2.0
Video		ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED Graphics Family pci (1a03:2000)
Wireless		Cavium, Inc. THUNDERX BGX (Common Ethernet Interface) pci (177d:a026) Cavium, Inc. THUNDERX Traffic Network Switch pci (177d:a01f)

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