From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 18:05:11 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 952BD29C for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 18:05:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-x232.google.com (mail-ob0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 61F9B1F2B for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 18:05:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f178.google.com with SMTP id uy5so7646329obc.37 for ; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:05:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=re2jDShtn9HpoGtqTDPUoM+7irZ6/9FRhK+eBsIEs4g=; b=Ht7hXK7QmmkLIVtMO9drRYFuIu8KvLRDS2o5d8OjxG03PegwdRm+3jVvmLudOyvrbs HknljzANQbhsBq6xzvOM6T0lKCmJMI0/IyFSInVPgfkf89HUUPA32SiFp2babwXCFKLe bmp8sbM57sNm+/AZmQc0PT5UfMWzG9BkIVNHe9hae4ecZ1YmYX8ZDsIqvVNIpWfsmiO+ x7GQ9wocQfSuHyq8JnuTyN4Ra4FnmTjdOTr8PZRF2+jwoifBwJo8USI+ubjUIihxQLRf hBGueXzJlnEjRedryDeySidB98LwGqqShEgSdfbG+3JUgZeJB5FgH+RfBr57v1uoGVv1 /OVQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.84.74 with SMTP id w10mr7564740oey.6.1409853910592; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:05:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.87.33 with HTTP; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 11:05:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 14:05:10 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Curiosity questions and comments about POWER8 From: Joe Nosay To: FreeBSD PowerPC ML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 18:05:11 -0000 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.