svn commit: r46175 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Fri Jan 9 22:10:33 UTC 2015

Author: bjk
Date: Fri Jan  9 22:10:32 2015
New Revision: 46175
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46175

Log:
  Add report on POWER8 bringup work
  
  Approved by:	hrs (mentor, blanket)

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml	Thu Jan  8 23:25:52 2015	(r46174)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml	Fri Jan  9 22:10:32 2015	(r46175)
@@ -1133,4 +1133,78 @@
     </help>
   </project>
 
+  <project cat='arch'>
+    <title>FreeBSD on POWER8</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Nathan</given>
+	  <common>Whitehorn</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>nwhitehorn at freebsd.org</email>
+      </person>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Justin</given>
+	  <common>Hibbits</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>jhibbits at freebsd.org</email>
+      </person>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Adrian</given>
+	  <common>Chadd</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>adrian at freebsd.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/POWER8" />
+      <url href="http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/" />
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>IBM and the OpenPOWER Foundation are pushing for a wider
+	software and hardware ecosystem for POWER8-based systems.
+	Beginning January 3, we have been doing bringup work on a Tyan
+	GN70-BP010 POWER8 server, a quad-core 3 GHz system with 32 hardware
+	threads.</p>
+
+      <p>The main target for the port is the PowerKVM hypervisor
+	provided on OpenPOWER hardware.  This uses the same software
+	interfaces as the PowerVM hypervisor already supported on
+	earlier POWER hardware.  The target is to have this operation mode
+	fully supported by &os; 10.2.  &os; currently runs under the
+	hypervisor when using a mass storage driver other than the built-in
+	virtualized SCSI; the issues with the SCSI driver should be solved
+	shortly.</p>
+
+      <p>The longer-term goal is to also operate on the bare system.
+	This requires interaction with the OPAL system firmware and
+	the development of device drivers for the on-board PCI,
+	console, and interrupt controller hardware.  As of January 4, the
+	&os; kernel had printed initial messages to the console.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>
+      &os; Foundation
+    </sponsor>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>Fix virtualized SCSI driver in PowerKVM.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Write OPAL drivers.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Integrate loader(8) with petitboot bootloader.</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
+
 </report>
