Announcement: PowerNV support in 12-CURRENT

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 04/09/18 12:42, Breno Leitao wrote:
> Hi Nathan,
>
> On 04/09/2018 04:23 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>>
>> On 04/09/18 10:28, Breno Leitao wrote:
>>> Hello Wojciech,
>>>
>>> On 03/05/2018 08:43 AM, Wojciech Macek wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I'm happy to announce that running FreeBSD on Power8 with PowerNV is now
>>>> possible since r330240.
>>> This is a very impressive and interesting work. Thanks!!!
>>>
>>> Quick question, do you have a documentation that explains how to install
>>> FreeBSD on a PowerNV machine with petitboot?
>>>
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>> You should just be able to put the CD in and press enter repeatedly in the
>> installer, as with any other platform.
> I am more wondering if there is an way to netinstall it other than installing
> by a CD.
>
> It is the easist way to install to whom do not have physicall access to the
> machine.
>

Ah. Netinstall is trickier as a result of some limitations in the 
kernel's nfsroot support. There is not a clear way to allow the kernel 
to conditionally boot from NFS if not started from loader, which we 
don't use on PowerNV, so you will have to use a custom kernel with 
options BOOTP.
-Nathan