HCL:ThunderX2

Marvell ThunderX2

The ThunderX2 is an AArch64 SKU family (CN99xx) from Marvell/Cavium that provides the best in class 64-bit ARMv8.1 Data Center & Cloud Processors.

Technical Data

up to 64 cores with up to 2.5 GHz core frequency (3 GHz in turbo mode)
Up to 4 TB of DDR4
PCIe: Up to 56 PCIe Gen3 lanes with 14 controllers, Supported widths x1, x2, x4, x8 and x16
Storage: 2 SATA Gen 3.0 ports
USB: 2 USB 3.0 ports
Advanced RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability) support
Standard UEFI boot environment

Installing

Please follow the generic instructions found at Installing openSUSE ARM for AArch64 EFI based systems.

Known issues

X

By default, X may pick the BMC VGA adapter for the default display instead of the graphic card. To enable graphics via NVIDIA GeForce graphics card, using gk208b chipset, add the following snippet to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nouveau.conf :

 Section "Device" 
    Identifier "gk208b" 
    Driver "nouveau" 
 EndSection