FreeBSD on OPENPOWER

[Breno Leitao]

Nathan,

On 06/13/2017 02:18 PM, Nathan Whitehorn 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.

Doesn't the OpenPower I/O Design Architecture documentation help?

http://openpowerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/resources/IODA2Spec/IODA2WGSpec-1.0.0-20160217.pdf