Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:28:44 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Dmitriy Demidov <dima_bsd@inbox.lv> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM POWER6 and FreeBSD Message-ID: <4968DACC.1090102@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200901101357.22449.dima_bsd@inbox.lv> References: <200901101357.22449.dima_bsd@inbox.lv>
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Dmitriy Demidov wrote: > 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. How long do you have this machine for? I'm in the middle of adding support for systems like this in Perforce, but it is still a little raw. Depending on whether the machine supports the 64-bit bridge mode facility, the kernel may at least begin to boot now, but I can't locate a manual for the POWER6 to check. -Nathan
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