From owner-freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Mon Mar 5 11:43:58 2018 Return-Path: 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 B84B1F24EE0 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2018 11:43:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wma@semihalf.com) Received: from mail-qk0-x231.google.com (mail-qk0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c09::231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5B7FB745C1 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2018 11:43:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wma@semihalf.com) Received: by mail-qk0-x231.google.com with SMTP id 130so20120242qkd.13 for ; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 03:43:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=semihalf-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=4Xlx87+Hnb+KE83XrLKWUV36cuLe96Uh4KbFMxcY8TY=; b=gjIwkt8cQhqzly7RjL6pdsEkwhVqgjFhh3agut96X/HtHdtpm5cKNw+2IjjI6FSvj3 OUwaYwWdkyUcKs+x5lPlGMoW3xNECP+uXJ3zvB+tuh+CuGh41cgLJJWh3PmpJ2pR5KqF bHtrDVc0HDo18QlZRV303wKA9KUfKD4A0BqGqJCidZ1CECohbwMWhltr+njnAbxka6oC yEYOuF5tZLihksz/IwJ+YcD58//ekl+K4cO6rGhIYXfBut6jIDXbSHcs1rGPU188AIuy 7SSfCHhTI7mdgr7wzHufhsP23vrItBGqc/oCOkCdXVeoF5LDs4HLxq3hMw062v7gV2gm 1YIQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=4Xlx87+Hnb+KE83XrLKWUV36cuLe96Uh4KbFMxcY8TY=; b=dQT1VCYHIjUEWrx2DsYjHFL21UZjbfbSg4Cd9VhvJ6L7DboYlMLxrR3T8PCKswekeK tSh9oJxTP4NHe+WWeCiV+DzAwDSt1QimOPtEGrKrl004RYTJa5tJPnQO1chp0zFr+9PO jLYuh69s21b+kv7K6IvR8LbGU1R/bqH16wLAYqWnGBTVvcYNwZ1ptd78crQ22QkRZC7V jvPF7hKsL0lP6qU8aLFWhS4Objc3tvsmDu2l4VV6msRag1lphnJOVhGdGjK6tfNTzTkx Sbvmzt3Rc0w9Z/QYNLXNT9j0RuugUTAyDrvQc5CcRB5VifBESGhCWwJZEkLwozuahT8+ R1AA== X-Gm-Message-State: AElRT7F9CaVqdEoCp1GTfDen3VULs04BWhnLyGeVlSt0gmAz6msEt/CP pBaxSd5Eq0C0D3tCpcXLkrgLim8bPDWukwQ8LjPRraR04Gs= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AG47ELs2XlvJz4xn94FyBwh0vu4iKpTooYxBUFUGEWUd4xHoToox0DsAKsjErwZClj3kl9HnHTKFv1J1B2RDpafPKJ8= X-Received: by 10.55.78.134 with SMTP id c128mr22105795qkb.226.1520250236639; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 03:43:56 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.237.39.140 with HTTP; Mon, 5 Mar 2018 03:43:36 -0800 (PST) From: Wojciech Macek Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 12:43:36 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Announcement: PowerNV support in 12-CURRENT To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org, p8-dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 11:43:58 -0000 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@