Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:39:13 -0500 From: Justin Hibbits <jhibbits@FreeBSD.org> To: ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware Message-ID: <20260115153913.08a2e751@ralga.knownspace> In-Reply-To: <7A169EF5-C7A3-45DD-A45F-945E9465C32F@cmpct.info> References: <CALcyL1okAizqAr_wEoU5QdDs%2BYYj1ELrWQHsTUCYtKqDnKK0dQ@mail.gmail.com> <20260115201210007840.1c572165@r-a-c.de> <20260115142413.1834b7ab@ralga.knownspace> <20260115205334752513.15e12efc@r-a-c.de> <7A169EF5-C7A3-45DD-A45F-945E9465C32F@cmpct.info>
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:01:00 -0400 Calvin Buckley <calvin@cmpct.info> wrote: > On Jan 15, 2026, at 3:53 PM, Goetz T. Fischer <g.fischer@r-a-c.de> > wrote: > > > > 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! > > There is llan(4) now, but I don't think there's one for the VIO SCSI. > > With llan(4), you could at least boot diskless. I haven't had much > luck with FreeBSD and VIOS however (see #279137). > > FWIW to people in the thread, I think I have spare hardware to test > with. Let me try to inventory it, most of it is going to be POWER8. I > could provide access or figure out how to get it shipped out. I believe the VIO SCSI should be handled by the vscsi driver (phyp_vscsi.c), but please correct me if I'm mistaken. My only piece of POWER hardware is my Talos II, so I'm unable to test PowerVM unless Qemu is able to emulate that sufficiently. - Justinhome | help
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