supportedhardware
DragonFly BSD runs on recent PCs supporting the i386 or amd64 (x86_64) microarchitectures.
This page only references a small part of the hardware which can potentially run with DragonFly; if a piece of hardware is not in this list this only means nobody has tested it or reported its working state.
Computers
Aleutia T2
- 1.8 GHz Intel Atom 64-bit 2-core 2-hyperthread CPU, 4 GB RAM.
- Display (including X), sound (snd_hda), USB (tested by installing from thumb drive), hard drive, network, and PS/2 mouse and keyboard all work.
System Boards and chipsets
Most desktop and server class mainboards using Intel or AMD chipsets are supported; the devices listed in this section are known to run really well with DragonFly BSD.
Desktop boards
- Gigabyte UD2H / UD3H series (Such as); ** Gigabyte 880GM-UD2H works extremely well, less software RAID AHCI controller, which is not a real RAID controller.
- Asrock H77 boards. Everything but Intel HD Graphics is supported
Server boards
Atom boards
- Supermicro X7SPA-H
Xeon boards
- Supermicro X8 series
- Dell r410
- Supermicro X9 series
Opteron boards
- Supermicro H8SGL and H8SGL-i boards
- Supermicro H8QG6, H8QG6-F and H8QG6+-F boards. As of 2011-04-15, there is no working driver for the included SAS adapter
Storage
SATA controllers
- Intel ICH7 and more recent chipsets
- AMD 700-series chipsets
- Silicon Image 3124/3132 chipsets
SATA RAID controllers
Devices supported by the arcmsr(4) driver
- Areca ARC-1200
- Areca ARC-1210
Devices supported by the twa(4) driver
- 3Ware 9650SE series
SAS RAID controllers
These controllers are able to use both SAS and SATA hard-drives.
Devices supported by the arcmsr(4) driver
- Areca ARC-1212 and ARC-1222
- Areca ARC-1213 and ARC-1223
- Areca ARC-1680-ix
- Areca ARC-1880 and ARC-1882 series
Devices supported by the mfi(4) driver
- LSI MegaRAID SAS 8408E
Devices supported by the mps(4) driver
- LSI Logic SAS2008-based controllers such as Asus PIKE 2008
Devices supported by the twa(4) driver
- 3Ware 9690SA-4i
Devices supported by the tws(4) driver
- 3Ware 9750-4i
Networking
Gigabit ethernet adapters
Devices supported by the em(4) driver:
- Intel 82540, 82541ER, 82541PI, 82542, 82543, 82544, 82545, 82546, 82546EB, 82546GB, 82547
- Intel 82571, 81572, 82573, and 82574
The igb(4) driver provides support for PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the Intel 82575 and 82576 Ethernet controller chips.
The re(4) driver supports Realtek RTL8169, RTL8169S, RTL8110S, RTL8168S, RTL8111S and RTL8101E ethernet chipsets
10 Gigabit ethernet adapters
The mxge(4) driver supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the Myricom LANai Z8E chips
The ixgbe(4) driver supports the Intel PRO/10GbE adapters based on the 82598 and 82599 chip families
Broken hardware
The products listed in this section are known to have some serious problems or not work at all with DragonFly BSD.
Asus M2N4-SLI: USB is not working on this model
HP Pavilion dv7 laptops: as of 2012-07 it is impossible to run DragonFly on them due to broken ACPI interrupt routing in their firmware.