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Violators will be prosecuted; Tue, 3 Oct 2017 15:45:15 -0400 Received: from b01ledav001.gho.pok.ibm.com (b01ledav001.gho.pok.ibm.com [9.57.199.106]) by b01cxnp22034.gho.pok.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id v93JjCTh15794178 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2017 19:45:14 GMT Received: from b01ledav001.gho.pok.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id D85ED28041 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2017 15:45:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [9.86.231.27] (unknown [9.86.231.27]) by b01ledav001.gho.pok.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95FAF2803E for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2017 15:45:07 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: FreeBSD on OPENPOWER To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org References: <541DD61B-2613-47EC-95DA-7B28438211E9@dsl-only.net> <3wmg6v4w0Tz1cXKx@baobab.bilink.it> <286a460c-e51f-d5d2-d475-67163729bb38@freebsd.org> From: Breno Leitao Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 16:45:13 -0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <286a460c-e51f-d5d2-d475-67163729bb38@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 17100319-2213-0000-0000-0000022564E0 X-IBM-SpamModules-Scores: X-IBM-SpamModules-Versions: BY=3.00007836; HX=3.00000241; KW=3.00000007; PH=3.00000004; SC=3.00000233; SDB=6.00926032; UDB=6.00465792; IPR=6.00706231; BA=6.00005620; NDR=6.00000001; ZLA=6.00000005; ZF=6.00000009; ZB=6.00000000; ZP=6.00000000; ZH=6.00000000; ZU=6.00000002; MB=3.00017383; XFM=3.00000015; UTC=2017-10-03 19:45:15 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 17100319-2214-0000-0000-000057BDC895 Message-Id: <7fb26801-1e73-2d42-4615-91072c55838e@br.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:, , definitions=2017-10-03_08:, , signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 spamscore=0 suspectscore=1 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1707230000 definitions=main-1710030280 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 19:45:22 -0000 Nathan, On 06/13/2017 02:18 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > > > On 06/12/17 10:36, Luciano Mannucci wrote: >> On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 11:18:20 -0700 >> Mark Millard wrote: >> >>> There was: >>> http://freebsd-bugs.freebsd.narkive.com/xZOoCt9C/bug-210106-current-won-t-boot-on-ppc64-power8-under-ibm-kvm >>> >>> about "[Bug 210106] Current won't boot on PPC64 Power8 under IBM KVM" and its >>> fix. I'll note list the material here. >>> >>> I'll stop searching with that. I do not know >>> current details. I've never had access to such >>> hardware. >> Well my Power8 runs now FreeBSD under IBM KVM and seems in good form. >> There are minor glitches that might be worth a glimpse (because of >> "sparse CPU allocation", some software [like htop] gets confused on >> which CPU it is running on), though the systems seem quite usable. >> >> I haven't tried to install FreeBSD on bare metal... >> >> Luciano. > We aren't *quite* at the point that bare metal works. There is a branch that > boots in the simulator and nearly boots on hardware but I haven't been able > to get around some unclearable faults generated by the PCI host bridge during > PCI enumeration on real hardware. Especially for someone familiar with this > hardware, or access to data sheets, it should be < 1 week of work to finish > the port. Without that, I am currently stuck, however. Doesn't the OpenPower I/O Design Architecture documentation help? http://openpowerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/resources/IODA2Spec/IODA2WGSpec-1.0.0-20160217.pdf