Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 22:12:21 -0400 From: Kazuo Kuroi <kazuok@projectkitsune.com> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: IBM POWER 720 (POWER 7) Message-ID: <etPan.5bb57705.7fb9f77c.1ff@projectkitsune.com>
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Greetings, I’ve a working POWER 7 box over here I’d like to either try running FreeBSD on bare metal or in an LPAR. Does anyone have any experience doing this and can suggest some tips? I’m aware this platform is neglected with these kinds of machines, and I’d like to change that. If I can get it warning, by all means unless I sell it I’d like to have developers who want access to it be allowed in - It isn’t a Talos, but it’s what I could get for free! P.S. I’ve signed up for the list but have not gotten confirmation yet, so to ensure I get this please CC me if you are responding to this! From owner-freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Thu Oct 4 02:02:54 2018 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1E5A10B7C35 for <freebsd-ppc@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org>; Thu, 4 Oct 2018 02:02:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marklmi@yahoo.com) Received: from sonic309-22.consmr.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (sonic309-22.consmr.mail.ne1.yahoo.com [66.163.184.148]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8F4FD7BDA2 for <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>; Thu, 4 Oct 2018 02:02:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marklmi@yahoo.com) X-YMail-OSG: xoJLTVkVM1nDRwxFd7ZTp3HJ7iUx9U_SC4Gccr2Qhu8cN.wI.FQaJ0RenN6no9E uFIHhBsXPVScPFoUxqiJmNr5HlnYon8yL1zqAM5FLpJ5rrWdZWdMdVs5FsYFNIVBTrS.NrBGpP1d TSUDGxUX0QiUWzjSqmQCO2HOYYdhGiSU7_zWvuLMFiNth_YXZkQoE18MUMYYRnAOm1jZNos8Fwuo TL.Ly_TPgQlap3dy6COvPHYPI9rQDSVTKKWgbA8rbrRq22tQ3faUIiU.UyPRdohU9.mW4NCy.M1n lR4yq_a.hPmBI2NaW4wZU5tD5.Kx7r7lY6UNhcyT0FVt9HE.01cVM7h00W3Dzyh_paPokayAIvRX JUut2ar1xojQXDa2_i35EW8uWodD59dpL5gUOR5FhA3Se0pojxibxyin_UnzobUNmlOrW7x36Q03 1HhsCjYmmKMJnqHwK24KMbgdgmZUBv1SsExHqhEfodIGa27Ce4dc0wCqj34t.T8_X91D8xTGbnNt tFsesg2zxR_ZN2KCZH6BJv.fvdDJxh.8Gf3WgkE71bIhhXqVQIomgLvRmorqJI1zNKOoU71wOpsx 5WEnd8qWCckxGNrXcG9oqSE_6EQUe5VrOVZZ9MuDbp2cKAkA9tkFLOyf.JikCuzodgaNLK0dml5Y RJo3tjVJsw3PFbglunasF9Q.zTPISLqR6ko0TRsaa42PlFjN8rdNKEa.Y3d0S7vH4RSJzMARxbjS D3wfMT4YbgxXf9RX1QBHZjh1QCvqU6TDFJUzgQPg.FGjGxwjOBSez205xLqmfSAEJ7YnAxcsnja3 SXd4sKIUo74AJ.XD1HV94M3IgoLi9mRoQoPEgYu1hkHctRuWEj6M8Co1ZECqGAQudogw.dbTqSv1 B9tHECHuLpdVgKwux8YdOwW7WSNV8pjOIgrHqY6QHAXWjFQbqvTSuYT7aPOCpQxDM6MYH3BLXnOT ODNdl59c.HfzNmUKLJ6jxqXdkqwo6K7DSbKx_Sj4wJWK3ipBrGYp8NEcISE.B0qPmNo8P0OmErin 0rycmCZzgpSzLgzFZ22V1.uPY9qrpzB.x Received: from sonic.gate.mail.ne1.yahoo.com by sonic309.consmr.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with HTTP; Thu, 4 Oct 2018 02:02:46 +0000 Received: from c-76-115-7-162.hsd1.or.comcast.net (EHLO [192.168.1.101]) ([76.115.7.162]) by smtp417.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (Oath Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID dd21f0b530123fca2c83e155cb3d9a39 for <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 02:02:42 +0000 (UTC) From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 11.5 \(3445.9.1\)) Subject: Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 19:02:41 -0700 References: <93B37DB3-331A-4C94-BF1E-BFDC5D066A53@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <93B37DB3-331A-4C94-BF1E-BFDC5D066A53@yahoo.com> Message-Id: <E1FC10C4-C921-4095-8C0B-0DCA1EE75DC5@yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.9.1) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC <freebsd-ppc.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-ppc>, <mailto:freebsd-ppc-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/>; List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-ppc-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc>, <mailto:freebsd-ppc-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2018 02:02:54 -0000 On 2018-Oct-3, at 6:27 PM, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote: > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2018-October/019167.html > > talks about removing 10Mbit/100Mbit ethernet drivers. This is not an > objection to the proposal, just an FYI. > > As I remember all the PowerMac/PowerBook/iMac/iBook G3's did not have 1GBit > Ethernet built-in: just 10Mbit and 100Mbit. Also the earliest G4's did not > (e.g., AGP's and 350 MHz PCI), including the PowerPC Mac-mini's. (All the > G5's had 1Gbit Ethernet as I remember.) > > I'm not sure which FreeBSD drivers covered the various examples of > lacking 1Gbit Ethernet. The proposal may be eliminating built-in-ethernet > support for (some of) the oldest of the Apple PowerPC machines for all I > know. I was wrong about the G5's: 3 early iMac G5 models do not have 1Gbit Ethernet. https://everymac.com/systems/by_capability/macs-with-ethernet.html lists by "Ethernet Capabilities" (actually sub-sorted by the capability). The list shows about 112 models with built-in Ethernet but without 1Gbit Ethernet. All are PowerPC based. ==Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar)help
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