Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 06:32:46 -0700 From: Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> To: Justin Hibbits <jhibbits@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD POWER9 status Message-ID: <CAK7dMtBSOdJ=AQFjddA7EEA6uNdcLEDnMhxNTC7tT7j9jkgdAg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHSQbTAWgh=8yda9y4LdQD8RTbTXDUZosxCRj5wUcT6X0POs%2BA@mail.gmail.com>
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Justin, This is a great accomplishment! Looking forward to receiving my Talos so I can join in on the fun. Regards, Kevin On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 3:31 PM, Justin Hibbits <jhibbits@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hello fellow PowerPC'ers, > > Over the last 4 weeks I've been working on the FreeBSD port to POWER9, > 3 weeks of which were on my physical hardware (Raptor Talos II). As > of last night, FreeBSD can boot to multiuser mode, with the addition > of two patches not yet committed for enabling PCI, and I plan to > commit those in the next few days. The patches can be found at: > > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15461 > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15566 > > What works (with patches): > * Boots to a USB stick > * OPAL sensors for temperature, voltage, power, etc > * OPAL IPMI (tested only for attachment) > * Interrupts via XIVE XICS emulation > * Everything already done for powernv by Semihalf (NVMe, OPAL UART) > > What's left: > * No display via AST2500 BMC VGA > * All threads currently spin-idle, rather than halting for idle, this > wastes CPU cycles, and reduces performance for other threads. I hope > to get this fixed in the next few days. > * Power management and cpufreq > * hwpmc > * Performance optimizations as we find them > * Full PCI handling. There are a lot of capabilities not currently handled. > * Interrupts via XIVE exploitation. This should improve stability and > performance of the XIVE controller. > > Special thanks to our newest committers, Leandro Lupori and Breno > Leitao, for their help with the bring-up. Special thanks also to > Benjamin Herrenschmidt from IBM for providing the key insights to > fixing PCI and interrupts. > > - Justin > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"home | help
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