Supported Hardware
THIS LIST IS GROSSLY OUTDATED AND GIVES JUST A FEW TESTED EXAMPLES AT BEST. PLEASE REFER TO OUR MANUAL PAGES WHICH HAVE MUCH MORE COMPREHENSIVE LISTS OF SUPPORTED HARDWARE
DragonFly BSD runs on recent PCs (currently only) supporting the amd64 (x86_64) 64-bit architecture. Up to version 3.8, the i386 (x86) 32-bit architecture was also supported. The UEFI (with GPT) is also supported, but the installer has not been updated to work with UEFI, therefore one has to do manual installation and configuration.
This page only references a small part of the hardware which can potentially run with DragonFly BSD; if a piece of hardware is not in this list this only means nobody has tested it or reported its working state.
Laptops
- Lenovo ThinkPad: X200, X220, X250, X260, T420, T480s
- Lenovo Ideapad: Y500
- Dell Latitude E7240
- Apple MacBook Pro 8,2
Desktops
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.
Apple MacMini
- 2012 Intel i5, 8 GB RAM
- Display (Intel HD4000), sound (snd_hda), ethernet (if_bnx) all good
- Wifi does not work, bluetooth untested
CompuLab MintBox Mini FITLET
- CPU AMD A4 Micro-6400T , 4GB RAM, 64GB mSATA
- XFCE desktop OK after style and font adjustments in Settings-Appearance
- Sound OK, loaded all drivers by putting snd_driver_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf
- Sound OK from HDMI to TV monitor
- Sound OK from front headphone jack (hw.snd.default_unit=2 in /etc/sysctl.conf)
- Provided wireless run0 USB adapter OK, if_run_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf
- Installed from USB flash drive
- Note: poor graphics/font display
Dell Optiplex 740
- AMD Athlon CPU, Nvidia Geforce 6150 LE GPU (304 legacy)
PowerSpec N108
- Celeron G1820 2.7Ghz CPU
Graphics
- Intel GPUs are supported up to the Coffeelake generation (2017-2018 machines)
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 is supported.
- Asrock and Gigabyte socket 1150 (Haswell) boards
Server boards
- Supermicro X7SPA-H (Atom)
- Supermicro X8 series
- Dell r210
- Dell r410
- Supermicro X9 series
- Supermicro X10 series (Haswell/Broadwell Xeons)
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 BSD on them due to broken ACPI interrupt routing in their firmware.