Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 12:43:36 +0100 From: Wojciech Macek <wma@semihalf.com> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org, p8-dev <p8-dev@semihalf.com> Subject: Announcement: PowerNV support in 12-CURRENT Message-ID: <CANsEV8dSoqiWErQC0Jh0oQ%2B3022_-RtmSzacVdZRbY8yxvuCsg@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, I'm happy to announce that running FreeBSD on Power8 with PowerNV is now possible since r330240. Supported features * Basic architecture support * Memory Management Unit * Interrupts * System timers * OPAL console * SMP, up to 128 CPUs were tested * Multiuser environment * PCIe bus with IOMMU and full IO cache coherency * USB XHCI controller * Device drivers: * Chelsio cxgbe(4) * NVMe SSD * OPAL I2C and RTC drivers * Deep sleep modes for idle cores At this point I'd like to send special thanks to all involved, especially: * Nathan Whitehorn, for providing initial support for the architecture, * Justin Hibbits and Nathan Whitehorn for help and insightful reviews, * Kevin Bowling (Limelight Networks) for organizing this project, * Sam Montoya (QCM Technologies) for sponsorhip and for a reference hardware, * IBM team for help with debugging, * the whole Semihalf development team (Patryk Duda, Michal Stanek) and Rafal Jaworowski for bringing the project to us, * and the rest of PPC ecosystems, users, testers and developers who participated in various ways during the development process. Best regards, Wojciech Macek wma@
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