Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:57:22 +0200 From: Dmitriy Demidov <dima_bsd@inbox.lv> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: IBM POWER6 and FreeBSD Message-ID: <200901101357.22449.dima_bsd@inbox.lv>
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Hi list! I got one IBM Power 550 system to play with =) http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/550/index.html First of all, I make a try to start FreeBSD-CURRENT snapshot installation, but - without success. System (SMS) do not recognizes FreeBSD-ppc nstallation media as bootable. The same with 7.1-RELEASE... I can start Linux SLES 10 installation on this machine - so looks like DVD-ROM is not a problem here. I take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html but do not found information about IBM POWER architecture support, so may be my idea to boot FreeBSD on this system is toooo crazy? :) At this moment system is not partitioned - it do not have PowerVM virtualization enabled. So, I would like to ask - is it possible to start FreeBSD here or not? May be NetBSD will works on this POWER6 system? It is not critical for me - I'm just playing with this system while I have physical access - it is not intendet to be production. Some info from Linux: --- Rescue:/proc # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : POWER6 (raw), altivec supported clock : 4204.000000MHz revision : 3.2 (pvr 003e 0302) processor : 1 cpu : POWER6 (raw), altivec supported clock : 4204.000000MHz revision : 3.2 (pvr 003e 0302) processor : 2 cpu : POWER6 (raw), altivec supported clock : 4204.000000MHz revision : 3.2 (pvr 003e 0302) processor : 3 cpu : POWER6 (raw), altivec supported clock : 4204.000000MHz revision : 3.2 (pvr 003e 0302) timebase : 512000000 machine : CHRP IBM,8204-E8A --- Rescue:~ # free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 7544 142 7402 0 15 89 -/+ buffers/cache: 37 7506 Swap: 0 0 0 --- Rescue:/proc # cat /proc/ppc64/lparcfg lparcfg 1.7 serial_number= system_type=IBM,8204-E8A partition_id=1 R4=0xc8 R5=0x0 R6=0x8001ffff R7=0x1000000000002 BoundThrds=1 CapInc=100 DisWheRotPer=5120000 MinEntCap=100 MinEntCapPerVP=100 MinMem=128 MinProcs=1 partition_max_entitled_capacity=200 system_potential_processors=2 DesEntCap=200 DesMem=7680 DesProcs=2 DesVarCapWt=0 DedDonMode=0 partition_entitled_capacity=200 group=32769 system_active_processors=2 unallocated_capacity_weight=0 capacity_weight=0 capped=1 unallocated_capacity=0 purr=1975715373512 partition_active_processors=2 partition_potential_processors=2 shared_processor_mode=0 ---
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