FreeBSD 11.3 or 12.x on IBM 9115-505

[Phil Scarr]

No, I get it.  I only got one because I wanted to tinker with POWER but didn’t realize how odd the POWER5 was.  In retrospect, more research was needed on my part.  But given that I have it now, I’d sure like to get it working.  I was considering offering time on it to the ppc64 team to do tests with if they’re interested.  But I suppose the world has moved on.

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> On Oct 24, 2019, at 6:23 PM, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 12:11:41PM +0000, Phil Scarr via freebsd-ppc wrote:
>
>> I'm disappointed that TeamLinux is so much further ahead than TeamBSD
>> on this, but given the relative marketshare of each team, I can't say
>> I'm surprised.  :-(
>
> It's more that there are not a lot of these machines are in private
> hands, compared to the older Macs and newer IBMs and especially the
> Taloses.  My tests with Debian showed problems when I tried it several
> years ago (just as a "does this box work" test).
>
> AFAIK within FreeBSD we had a maximum of 3 people with IBM Power5s.
>
> mcl