Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 22:10:33 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r46175 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201501092210.t09MAXj9012837@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Fri Jan 9 22:10:32 2015 New Revision: 46175 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46175 Log: Add report on POWER8 bringup work Approved by: hrs (mentor, blanket) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Thu Jan 8 23:25:52 2015 (r46174) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Fri Jan 9 22:10:32 2015 (r46175) @@ -1133,4 +1133,78 @@ </help> </project> + <project cat='arch'> + <title>FreeBSD on POWER8</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Nathan</given> + <common>Whitehorn</common> + </name> + <email>nwhitehorn@freebsd.org</email> + </person> + <person> + <name> + <given>Justin</given> + <common>Hibbits</common> + </name> + <email>jhibbits@freebsd.org</email> + </person> + <person> + <name> + <given>Adrian</given> + <common>Chadd</common> + </name> + <email>adrian@freebsd.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/POWER8" /> + <url href="http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/" /> + </links> + + <body> + <p>IBM and the OpenPOWER Foundation are pushing for a wider + software and hardware ecosystem for POWER8-based systems. + Beginning January 3, we have been doing bringup work on a Tyan + GN70-BP010 POWER8 server, a quad-core 3 GHz system with 32 hardware + threads.</p> + + <p>The main target for the port is the PowerKVM hypervisor + provided on OpenPOWER hardware. This uses the same software + interfaces as the PowerVM hypervisor already supported on + earlier POWER hardware. The target is to have this operation mode + fully supported by &os; 10.2. &os; currently runs under the + hypervisor when using a mass storage driver other than the built-in + virtualized SCSI; the issues with the SCSI driver should be solved + shortly.</p> + + <p>The longer-term goal is to also operate on the bare system. + This requires interaction with the OPAL system firmware and + the development of device drivers for the on-board PCI, + console, and interrupt controller hardware. As of January 4, the + &os; kernel had printed initial messages to the console.</p> + </body> + + <sponsor> + &os; Foundation + </sponsor> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Fix virtualized SCSI driver in PowerKVM.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Write OPAL drivers.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Integrate loader(8) with petitboot bootloader.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> + </report>
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