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

Calvin Buckley <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:01:06 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Nov 27, 2025, at 10:57 AM, Piotr Kubaj <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> What exact issue are you facing? I have FreeBSD VM's running on Talos II
> on a Linux host. qemu is supposed to be using the same pseries machine
> type as PowerVM.

On BZ: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=279137 - it seems
like some issue with the loader not being loaded, but I haven't looked at
the issue in a while.

QEMU uses a different OF implementation, so it's not a good proxy for what
works on real hardware. (There's also the VIOS virtual devices that are
missing drivers if you don't pass through real storage/network controllers,
that's a different can of worms.)