Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 14:05:10 -0400 From: Joe Nosay <superbisquit@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Curiosity questions and comments about POWER8 Message-ID: <CA%2BWntOuEwL3Ja668ZYugKyzC8J=y8qhQVZQo3NwRr7BRhjOwtw@mail.gmail.com>
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Has anyone else checked into trying to obtain a board? Tyan technologies had/ has?? an atx type board that was used- possibly- by Google. IBM et al have the Open Power Foundation available with the student option available for no cost. POWER8 is open. There has been no response from any of the companies developing boards and servers with POWER8 chips/cores. I'm tempted to see if Google would be willing to make some available to the general public- here being BSD and Linux developers/porters. No information has been released as to whether the boot process is direct like a few of the Genesi or if a bootloader is used.
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