svn commit: r51431 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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Author: bjk
Date: Mon Feb 19 17:00:06 2018
New Revision: 51431
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/51431
Log:
Add 2017Q4 PowerNV entry from Wojciech Macek
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-10-2017-12.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-10-2017-12.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-10-2017-12.xml Mon Feb 19 05:31:43 2018 (r51430)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-10-2017-12.xml Mon Feb 19 17:00:06 2018 (r51431)
@@ -346,4 +346,109 @@
any ports mentioned here, please consider fixing them.</task>
</help>
</project>
+
+ <project cat='arch'>
+ <title>&os; on PowerNV (ppc64)</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Patryk</given>
+ <common>Duda</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Wojciech</given>
+ <common>Macek</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Michal</given>
+ <common>Stanek</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Nathan</given>
+ <common>Whitehorn</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <links>
+ <url href="https://github.com/Semihalf/powernv">Semihalf PowerNV Official Repository</url>
+ <url href="https://github.com/open-power/skiboot">Skiboot Repository with the Latest OPAL Firmware</url>
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+ <p> Semihalf is happy to announce that &os; is running on an IBM
+ Power8 processor. This project is a continuation of work done
+ by Nathan Whitehorn, who provided a basic support for a
+ PowerNV emulator.</p>
+
+ <p>The IBM Power8 family of CPUs offers superior performance
+ compared to previous CPUs in the Power series. It provides
+ complete NUMA support with up to 128 execution threads in
+ two-socket system (2 sockets, 8 cores per socket, 8 threads
+ per core). All I/O communication is handled by an integrated
+ PCIe interface equipped with multiple IOMMU engines.</p>
+
+ <p>The support for Power8 system running &os; in a non-virtualized
+ environment contains:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>A generic driver for the OPAL hypervisor</li>
+
+ <li><tt>kboot</tt> loader modifications to allow for a
+ little-endian to load a big-endian kernel ELF image</li>
+
+ <li>An update to the ELF parser in <tt>skiboot</tt>, allowing
+ it to understand the &os; kernel file format</li>
+
+ <li>Basic support for the PowerNV architecture, including
+ modes of operation, memory-management unit (MMU), and
+ interrupt controller</li>
+
+ <li>SMP operation with up to 128 CPUs</li>
+
+ <li>PCI host bridge subsystem driver, including IOMMU mapping
+ for external busses</li>
+
+ <li>PCIe host controller driver</li>
+
+ <li>USB-3.0 XHCI driver</li>
+
+ <li>Reworked several drivers to be big-endian compatible</li>
+
+ <li>Chelsio cxgbe(4) 10/25G network adapter</li>
+
+ <li>NVMe SSD driver</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>All work is available in the linked GitHub repository. The
+ process of getting this work into the official repository has
+ already started and eventually, all commits will be integrated
+ into &os;-12 CURRENT.</p>
+ </body>
+
+ <sponsor>IBM</sponsor>
+
+ <sponsor>The FreeBSD Foundation</sponsor>
+
+ <sponsor>QCM Technologies</sponsor>
+
+ <sponsor>Semihalf</sponsor>
+
+ <sponsor>Limelight Networks (Kevin Bowling)</sponsor>
+ </project>
</report>
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