POWER3 / IBM 7028-6E1

Любомир Григоров nm.knife at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 21:28:50 UTC 2011


According to
http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2011-04-2011-06.html#FreeBSD/powerpc64-on-IBM-pSeries-machines
the powerpc64 should work on pSeries IBM machines (that's the plan). It's
not very far in, thought.

I will burn the powerpc iso and see how far it gets.


> I don't know a lot about POWER3. Your hardware isn't supported, for sure.
> It's possible the 9.0 PowerPC builds do something on it, and it would be
> interesting to see what if you feel like trying. If it manages to print
> anything to console, it's possible support could be added. The 64-bit kernel
> will certainly not work, as it depends on the newer MMU architecture
> introduced with the POWER4.
> -Nathan
>

-- 
Lyubomir Grigorov (bgalakazam)


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