From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 27 05:29:38 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F14A162E for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 05:29:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from d.mail.sonic.net (d.mail.sonic.net [64.142.111.50]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D7E4B254 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 05:29:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aurora.physics.berkeley.edu (aurora.Physics.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.117.67]) (authenticated bits=0) by d.mail.sonic.net (8.15.1/8.15.1) with ESMTPSA id t1R5TVrk004708 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 26 Feb 2015 21:29:31 -0800 Message-ID: <54F000BB.40906@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 21:29:31 -0800 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Black Fox , freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on POWER6 p520 References: <54EFC70F.7080005@teamblackfox.com> In-Reply-To: <54EFC70F.7080005@teamblackfox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sonic-CAuth: UmFuZG9tSVbtRh2/TlnJvbZfaMjIenWAhyil7zP0B0sIJW7GQdX/1xJq34ZcFJ+qdBaYo4nYZT6XCpKQoUPsFsxA3eAIf5TV3lc4YqaH+MI= X-Sonic-ID: C;QqYTm0G+5BGOm75YxQPdhw== M;jBdEm0G+5BGOm75YxQPdhw== X-Spam-Flag: No X-Sonic-Spam-Details: 0.0/5.0 by cerberusd X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 05:29:39 -0000 That should be reasonably well supported by the powerpc64 port. We at least run well on POWER8 and POWER5+ systems. The one potential issue of which I'm aware is that the on-board SCSI controller on some IBM systems doesn't have a driver yet. You may also have trouble if you want to run X, but that's probably moot for a server. -Nathan On 02/26/15 17:23, Black Fox wrote: > Hello, > > Looking at adding a POWER6 machine to my lineup, I was eyeing the > p520. I like FreeBSD, so I wanted to see if it was possible to run it > on this server, and if so, how good is the support? > > Thanks, > > The Black Fox > _______________________________________________ > 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" >