From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 29 16:25:23 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0F341C2 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:25:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from i3mail.icecube.wisc.edu (i3mail.icecube.wisc.edu [128.104.255.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D62B41C7D for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:25:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by i3mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A35A3803B; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:15:44 -0600 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at icecube.wisc.edu Received: from i3mail.icecube.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (i3mail.icecube.wisc.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10030) with ESMTP id VNuqaDOfA8W9; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:15:44 -0600 (CST) Received: from terminus.icecube.wisc.edu (terminus.icecube.wisc.edu [172.16.223.97]) by i3mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 49E0E38033; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:15:44 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <52E92930.1090801@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:15:44 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vusa Moyo , James Shaw Subject: Re: Getting IBM pSeries 520 to boot from FreeBSD disc References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:25:23 -0000 We have limited support in -CURRENT (and in 10.0) for IBM hardware. At least the 520 can be netbooted into -CURRENT and works fine, although the internal SCSI controller is unsupported. I believe Andreas Tobler is working on a SCSI driver. It sounds like there is some issue with the CD setup that needs to be debugged on certain firmwares. POWER LPARs with VIOS should work with 10.0 (support may be a little better in -CURRENT) on any POWER system, up to and including the newest POWER7+ systems, with full support for storage and network. Advanced features like live partition migration and hotplug of memory are not currently supported, however. Not a lot of direct testing has been done, but the general situation is that the PPC64 release should run on all POWER4/970 and newer hardware. POWER4 whole-machine partitions probably require a new interrupt controller driver, though LPARs should work (newer machines are all LPAR-mode, even with only one partition) Earlier machines may or may not work with the 32-bit release, depending on hardware drivers. -Nathan On 01/29/14 09:47, Vusa Moyo wrote: > I Tried on a p570 and p770. Same issues. I believe by ppc they mean ex-Apple ppc. But I stand to be corrected. > > James Shaw wrote: > >> I have a pair of IBM pSeries 520 systems that I have been trying to install >> FreeBSD onto. So far, it will load the bootloader, and that's it. It keeps >> complaining that it can not find the kernel. >> >> I was wondering if there's a special setting that I'm missing or something. >> I can get it to boot Debian just fine, but for some reason it has issues >> with the FreeBSD 9.2 and 10.0-RELEASE discs. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"