IBM POWER6 and FreeBSD
Torfinn Ingolfsen
torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no
Sun Jan 11 06:29:14 PST 2009
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:28:44 -0600
Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:
> How long do you have this machine for? I'm in the middle of adding
> support for systems like this in Perforce, but it is still a little
> raw. Depending on whether the machine supports the 64-bit bridge mode
> facility, the kernel may at least begin to boot now, but I can't
> locate a manual for the POWER6 to check.
Just thinking: it would be nice if IBM donated a POWER6-based machine
to the FreeBSD Project, for development of FreeBSd on this platform.
Unless the project already have such machines already.
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Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen
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