Re: What's the plan for powerpc64 in FreeBSD 16

On Nov 26, 2025, at 4:47 PM, Al <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is a number of new PowerPC 64 BE systems:
> A1222
> Sam460 several versions
> Mirari (New PPC hardware)
> Also, https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/
> I am also told you can still buy X5000s new.

IBM systems are also right there, but they seem invisible to the PowerPC
enthusiasts. They don't have weird anemic embedded processors either.

I do have an IBM POWER8 system I'd like to use, but FreeBSD seems broken
in PowerVM, so I haven't been able to try it yet. (Allegedly, it works
with OPAL/OpenPOWER mode, but you lose partitioning, and I'm not using a
whole system just for FreeBSD.)