[oi-dev] HCL - Lenovo ThinkCentre Workstations

[Atiq Rahman]

Hi,
Thanks to all of you for the hard work in expanding HCL.

Among below which will be good to run illumos OSs after PRs listed above
are merged?

Model Name Supported CPU Series CPU Generations
ThinkCentre M75 Gen 5 Ryzen PRO 8000 Series Zen 4 (2024)
<https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/ai-pc-era-new-thinkcentre-desktops-powered-amd-ryzen-pro-8000-series/>
ThinkStation P8 Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series Zen 4 (2024)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkStation>
ThinkStation P620 Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000/3000 WX Zen 3/Zen 2

Thanks,

Atiq

On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM Joshua M. Clulow via oi-dev <
oi-dev at openindiana.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 at 23:58, Atiq Rahman <atiqcx at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is "ThinkCentre M75s Gen 5 (AMD) system" able to run any of the illumos
> OSs with DE (GUI)? Do you happen to know?
>
> I'm actually qualifying those desktops right now as control machines
> for lab and manufacturing work.  There are a few bugs I'm working
> through getting fixed:
>
>     17548 early boot framebuffer reach exceeds grasp
>         https://www.illumos.org/issues/17548
>         https://code.illumos.org/c/illumos-gate/+/4350
>
>     17570 rge(4D) should aim before shooting
>         https://www.illumos.org/issues/17570
>         https://code.illumos.org/c/illumos-gate/+/4363
>
>     17571 rge(4D) should not bind to Realtek BMC device
>         https://www.illumos.org/issues/17571
>         https://code.illumos.org/c/illumos-gate/+/4362
>
> With my prototype fixes for those in place, the system boots and
> appears stable.  I'm having a separate issue with a NIC on a PCIe
> add-in card, but that might be related to the actual card itself.
>
> I'm not sure that I would expect a desktop environment to run on these
> systems.  Our DRM port is relatively ancient, and does not appear to
> include the "amdgpu" driver, which is what I would expect to attach to
> the onboard graphics device.  The port is here, if you're curious and
> would like to work on it:
>
>     https://github.com/illumos/gfx-drm
>
> For our purposes (custom software, not X11) the static framebuffer
> mapping left in place by the EFI firmware is sufficient, so I'm not
> expecting to do any DRM work at this time.
>
>
> Cheers.
>
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