[oi-dev] HCL - Lenovo ThinkCentre Workstations

[Joshua M. Clulow]

On Sun, 7 Sept 2025 at 17:58, Atiq Rahman <atiqcx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Among below which will be good to run illumos OSs after PRs listed above are merged?
>
> ThinkCentre M75 Gen 5   Ryzen PRO 8000 SeriesZen 4 (2024)

I believe this is roughly the same as the one I qualified when I was
making the patches.

> ThinkStation P8         Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-SeriesZen 4 (2024)
> ThinkStation P620       Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000/3000 WXZen 3/Zen 2

Hopefully either of those would work too!  If not, I'm sure whatever
is wrong can be fixed.

I want to clarify, again: I am not using DRM/X11 on these systems for
a graphical environment.  I do not expect that to work at present.
Someone will need to work on the DRM port, and specifically on
enabling the "amdgpu" DRM driver.  See below, from my earlier message:

>> 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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Joshua M. Clulow
http://blog.sysmgr.org