Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:53:34 +0100 From: "Goetz T. Fischer" <g.fischer@r-a-c.de> To: jhibbits@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware Message-ID: <20260115205334752513.15e12efc@r-a-c.de> In-Reply-To: <20260115142413.1834b7ab@ralga.knownspace> References: <CALcyL1okAizqAr_wEoU5QdDs%2BYYj1ELrWQHsTUCYtKqDnKK0dQ@mail.gmail.com> <20260115201210007840.1c572165@r-a-c.de> <20260115142413.1834b7ab@ralga.knownspace>
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:24:13 -0500, Justin Hibbits wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:12:10 +0100 > "Goetz T. Fischer" <g.fischer@r-a-c.de> wrote: > >> On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:26:49 -0800, Stephanie Sunshine wrote: >>> Greetings everyone, >>> >>> With all the recent activity I just want to throw it out there that >>> I have one of the IBM Power8 machines, in storage, that I would be >>> happy to turn on and give access to any of the developers if I >>> could just find a place to host the machine. I am in Seattle. I >>> don't have any hard requirements or needs for it, but if someone >>> has the space to plug this thing in, and it would be beneficial to >>> the development of FreeBSD/PPC64, I would be happy to offer its >>> services to the community. >>> >>> Thank you all for your dedication >>> Stephanie >> >> amazing! is there any chance to get powervm support into freebsd? i >> would replace my linux lpars right away. >> > FreeBSD already supports pseries, which I use with Qemu/KVM. Is there > more that's needed specific for PowerVM? If so, I'd love to know so we > can do that. sorry i should have been more precise. i mean powervm + vios support. i.e. freebsd would support the virtual vios disks and nics. otherwise it needs a pure, dedicated lpar with its own, exclusive hardware which doesn't make much sense on ibm power systems. that would be highly welcome!home | help
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