svn commit: r46175 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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Author: bjk
Date: Fri Jan 9 22:10:32 2015
New Revision: 46175
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46175
Log:
Add report on POWER8 bringup work
Approved by: hrs (mentor, blanket)
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Thu Jan 8 23:25:52 2015 (r46174)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Fri Jan 9 22:10:32 2015 (r46175)
@@ -1133,4 +1133,78 @@
</help>
</project>
+ <project cat='arch'>
+ <title>FreeBSD on POWER8</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Nathan</given>
+ <common>Whitehorn</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Justin</given>
+ <common>Hibbits</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Adrian</given>
+ <common>Chadd</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <links>
+ <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/POWER8" />
+ <url href="http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/" />
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>IBM and the OpenPOWER Foundation are pushing for a wider
+ software and hardware ecosystem for POWER8-based systems.
+ Beginning January 3, we have been doing bringup work on a Tyan
+ GN70-BP010 POWER8 server, a quad-core 3 GHz system with 32 hardware
+ threads.</p>
+
+ <p>The main target for the port is the PowerKVM hypervisor
+ provided on OpenPOWER hardware. This uses the same software
+ interfaces as the PowerVM hypervisor already supported on
+ earlier POWER hardware. The target is to have this operation mode
+ fully supported by &os; 10.2. &os; currently runs under the
+ hypervisor when using a mass storage driver other than the built-in
+ virtualized SCSI; the issues with the SCSI driver should be solved
+ shortly.</p>
+
+ <p>The longer-term goal is to also operate on the bare system.
+ This requires interaction with the OPAL system firmware and
+ the development of device drivers for the on-board PCI,
+ console, and interrupt controller hardware. As of January 4, the
+ &os; kernel had printed initial messages to the console.</p>
+ </body>
+
+ <sponsor>
+ &os; Foundation
+ </sponsor>
+
+ <help>
+ <task>
+ <p>Fix virtualized SCSI driver in PowerKVM.</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>Write OPAL drivers.</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>Integrate loader(8) with petitboot bootloader.</p>
+ </task>
+ </help>
+ </project>
+
</report>
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