Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 22:50:43 +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: r46564 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201504152250.t3FMohqf041517@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Wed Apr 15 22:50:42 2015 New Revision: 46564 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46564 Log: Add POWER8 report Approved by: hrs (mentor, implicit) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Wed Apr 15 16:37:43 2015 (r46563) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Wed Apr 15 22:50:42 2015 (r46564) @@ -2418,4 +2418,78 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre> </task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='proj'> + <title>&os; 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="http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/">Tyan development reference platform</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>IBM and the OpenPOWER Foundation are pushing for a wider + software and hardware ecosystem for POWER8-based systems. + Starting in January 2014, we have been doing bringup work on a + Tyan GN70-BP010 POWER8 server, a quad-core 3 GHz system with a + total of 32 hardware threads.</p> + + <p>Updates since the previous report:</p> + + <ul> + <li>&os; now boots under a hypervisor with the virtual SCSI + block device, the issue previously preventing this has + been fixed.</li> + + <li>The powerpc64 pmap code was rewritten to be more + scalable, as the previous pmap code did not scale beyond a small + number of CPUs.</li> + + <li>Initial support for IBM's Vector-Scalar Extensions + (VSX) was added.</li> + + <li>The &os; kernel was made completely position + independent for powerpc64, and later powerpc32 as well.</li> + </ul> + </body> + + <sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Get &os; booting natively, rather than under KVM. This + requires writing OPAL drivers for the various hardware + devices in the system.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Integrate loader(8) with petitboot.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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