Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 16:45:13 -0300 From: Breno Leitao <brenohl@br.ibm.com> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on OPENPOWER Message-ID: <7fb26801-1e73-2d42-4615-91072c55838e@br.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <286a460c-e51f-d5d2-d475-67163729bb38@freebsd.org> References: <fb1cf2ce-740d-f829-3508-f4091c78e965@peercorpstrust.org> <CAK7dMtC03LLohjybsYydkYA4=zQYUOWpOj7fw%2BmQkpQE2RGWOg@mail.gmail.com> <d2266fb6-5407-d246-6054-06d2e23dd134@peercorpstrust.org> <541DD61B-2613-47EC-95DA-7B28438211E9@dsl-only.net> <3wmg6v4w0Tz1cXKx@baobab.bilink.it> <286a460c-e51f-d5d2-d475-67163729bb38@freebsd.org>
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Nathan, On 06/13/2017 02:18 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > > > On 06/12/17 10:36, Luciano Mannucci wrote: >> On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 11:18:20 -0700 >> Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net> wrote: >> >>> There was: >>> http://freebsd-bugs.freebsd.narkive.com/xZOoCt9C/bug-210106-current-won-t-boot-on-ppc64-power8-under-ibm-kvm >>> >>> about "[Bug 210106] Current won't boot on PPC64 Power8 under IBM KVM" and its >>> fix. I'll note list the material here. >>> >>> I'll stop searching with that. I do not know >>> current details. I've never had access to such >>> hardware. >> Well my Power8 runs now FreeBSD under IBM KVM and seems in good form. >> There are minor glitches that might be worth a glimpse (because of >> "sparse CPU allocation", some software [like htop] gets confused on >> which CPU it is running on), though the systems seem quite usable. >> >> I haven't tried to install FreeBSD on bare metal... >> >> Luciano. > We aren't *quite* at the point that bare metal works. There is a branch that > boots in the simulator and nearly boots on hardware but I haven't been able > to get around some unclearable faults generated by the PCI host bridge during > PCI enumeration on real hardware. Especially for someone familiar with this > hardware, or access to data sheets, it should be < 1 week of work to finish > the port. Without that, I am currently stuck, however. Doesn't the OpenPower I/O Design Architecture documentation help? http://openpowerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/resources/IODA2Spec/IODA2WGSpec-1.0.0-20160217.pdf
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