Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:00:06 +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: r51431 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201802191700.w1JH06Ol016323@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Mon Feb 19 17:00:06 2018 New Revision: 51431 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/51431 Log: Add 2017Q4 PowerNV entry from Wojciech Macek Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-10-2017-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-10-2017-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-10-2017-12.xml Mon Feb 19 05:31:43 2018 (r51430) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-10-2017-12.xml Mon Feb 19 17:00:06 2018 (r51431) @@ -346,4 +346,109 @@ any ports mentioned here, please consider fixing them.</task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='arch'> + <title>&os; on PowerNV (ppc64)</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Patryk</given> + <common>Duda</common> + </name> + <email>pdk@semihalf.com</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Wojciech</given> + <common>Macek</common> + </name> + <email>wma@FreeBSD.org</email> + <email>wma@semihalf.com</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Michal</given> + <common>Stanek</common> + </name> + <email>mst@semihalf.com</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Nathan</given> + <common>Whitehorn</common> + </name> + <email>nw@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://github.com/Semihalf/powernv">Semihalf PowerNV Official Repository</url> + <url href="https://github.com/open-power/skiboot">Skiboot Repository with the Latest OPAL Firmware</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p> Semihalf is happy to announce that &os; is running on an IBM + Power8 processor. This project is a continuation of work done + by Nathan Whitehorn, who provided a basic support for a + PowerNV emulator.</p> + + <p>The IBM Power8 family of CPUs offers superior performance + compared to previous CPUs in the Power series. It provides + complete NUMA support with up to 128 execution threads in + two-socket system (2 sockets, 8 cores per socket, 8 threads + per core). All I/O communication is handled by an integrated + PCIe interface equipped with multiple IOMMU engines.</p> + + <p>The support for Power8 system running &os; in a non-virtualized + environment contains:</p> + + <ul> + <li>A generic driver for the OPAL hypervisor</li> + + <li><tt>kboot</tt> loader modifications to allow for a + little-endian to load a big-endian kernel ELF image</li> + + <li>An update to the ELF parser in <tt>skiboot</tt>, allowing + it to understand the &os; kernel file format</li> + + <li>Basic support for the PowerNV architecture, including + modes of operation, memory-management unit (MMU), and + interrupt controller</li> + + <li>SMP operation with up to 128 CPUs</li> + + <li>PCI host bridge subsystem driver, including IOMMU mapping + for external busses</li> + + <li>PCIe host controller driver</li> + + <li>USB-3.0 XHCI driver</li> + + <li>Reworked several drivers to be big-endian compatible</li> + + <li>Chelsio cxgbe(4) 10/25G network adapter</li> + + <li>NVMe SSD driver</li> + </ul> + + <p>All work is available in the linked GitHub repository. The + process of getting this work into the official repository has + already started and eventually, all commits will be integrated + into &os;-12 CURRENT.</p> + </body> + + <sponsor>IBM</sponsor> + + <sponsor>The FreeBSD Foundation</sponsor> + + <sponsor>QCM Technologies</sponsor> + + <sponsor>Semihalf</sponsor> + + <sponsor>Limelight Networks (Kevin Bowling)</sponsor> + </project> </report>
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