FreeBSD on OPENPOWER

[Kevin Bowling]

The IBM team in Austrailia that does most of the firmware and bootloader
stuff is in #ppc64 on Freenode if that can help.

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On 06/12/17 10:36, Luciano Mannucci wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
> We aren't *quite* at the point that bare metal works. There is a branch
> that boots in the simulator and nearly boots on hardware but I haven't been
> able to get around some unclearable faults generated by the PCI host bridge
> during PCI enumeration on real hardware. Especially for someone familiar
> with this hardware, or access to data sheets, it should be < 1 week of work
> to finish the port. Without that, I am currently stuck, however.
> -Nathan
>
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