FreeBSD on OPENPOWER

[Luciano Mannucci]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 11:18:20 -0700
Mark Millard <markmi at dsl-only.net> wrote:

> There was:
> http://freebsd-bugs.freebsd.narkive.com/xZOoCt9C/bug-210106-current-won-t-boot-on-ppc64-power8-under-ibm-kvm
> about "[Bug 210106] Current won't boot on PPC64 Power8 under IBM KVM" and its
> fix. I'll note list the material here.
> 
> I'll stop searching with that. I do not know
> current details. I've never had access to such
> hardware.
Well my Power8 runs now FreeBSD under IBM KVM and seems in good form.
There are minor glitches that might be worth a glimpse (because of
"sparse CPU allocation", some software [like htop] gets confused on
which CPU it is running on), though the systems seem quite usable.

I haven't tried to install FreeBSD on bare metal...

Luciano.
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