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Sat, 19 Jan 2019 06:06:20 -0500 (EST) To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Cc: grehan@freebsd.org From: Uni Gaia Subject: FreeBSD on the Talos II; OpenPOWER in general Message-ID: Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 11:06:16 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 570A474AEE X-Spamd-Bar: ------- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=fastmail.jp header.s=fm2 header.b=owwATmGn; dkim=pass header.d=messagingengine.com header.s=fm1 header.b=q/+VNwt5; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=fastmail.jp; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of unigaia@fastmail.jp designates 66.111.4.29 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=unigaia@fastmail.jp X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-7.48 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[fastmail.jp:s=fm2,messagingengine.com:s=fm1]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:66.111.4.29]; FREEMAIL_FROM(0.00)[fastmail.jp]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[fastmail.jp:+,messagingengine.com:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[fastmail.jp,none]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: in2-smtp.messagingengine.com]; IP_SCORE(-3.62)[ip: (-9.66), ipnet: 66.111.4.0/24(-4.65), asn: 11403(-3.69), country: US(-0.08)]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.75)[-0.755,0]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[fastmail.jp]; ASN(0.00)[asn:11403, ipnet:66.111.4.0/24, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW(-0.10)[29.4.111.66.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.1] X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 11:06:24 -0000 I could not determine clearly from https://wiki.freebsd.org/powerpc/POWER9 whether FreeBSD works today as a server or desktop operating system for this hardware. It seems clear that OpenPOWER, with its entirely open architecture & firmware, including OpenBMC, is the way forward. I was wondering if this is a perception shared by the FreeBSD developers? Is there interest and/or focused effort in bringing OpenPOWER all the way up to Tier-1 status? IMO this has been the most exciting hardware development in recent years, and a great leap forward towards truly free computing.