svn commit: r46564 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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Author: bjk
Date: Wed Apr 15 22:50:42 2015
New Revision: 46564
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46564
Log:
Add POWER8 report
Approved by: hrs (mentor, implicit)
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Wed Apr 15 16:37:43 2015 (r46563)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Wed Apr 15 22:50:42 2015 (r46564)
@@ -2418,4 +2418,78 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
</task>
</help>
</project>
+
+ <project cat='proj'>
+ <title>&os; 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="http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/">Tyan development reference platform</url>
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>IBM and the OpenPOWER Foundation are pushing for a wider
+ software and hardware ecosystem for POWER8-based systems.
+ Starting in January 2014, we have been doing bringup work on a
+ Tyan GN70-BP010 POWER8 server, a quad-core 3 GHz system with a
+ total of 32 hardware threads.</p>
+
+ <p>Updates since the previous report:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>&os; now boots under a hypervisor with the virtual SCSI
+ block device, the issue previously preventing this has
+ been fixed.</li>
+
+ <li>The powerpc64 pmap code was rewritten to be more
+ scalable, as the previous pmap code did not scale beyond a small
+ number of CPUs.</li>
+
+ <li>Initial support for IBM's Vector-Scalar Extensions
+ (VSX) was added.</li>
+
+ <li>The &os; kernel was made completely position
+ independent for powerpc64, and later powerpc32 as well.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </body>
+
+ <sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor>
+
+ <help>
+ <task>
+ <p>Get &os; booting natively, rather than under KVM. This
+ requires writing OPAL drivers for the various hardware
+ devices in the system.</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>Integrate loader(8) with petitboot.</p>
+ </task>
+ </help>
+ </project>
</report>
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