Re: Hardware

Justin Hibbits <[email protected]> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:24:13 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:12:10 +0100
"Goetz T. Fischer" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:26:49 -0800, Stephanie Sunshine wrote:
> > Greetings everyone,
> > 
> > With all the recent activity I just want to throw it out there that
> > I have one of the IBM Power8 machines, in storage, that I would be
> > happy to turn on and give access to any of the developers if I
> > could just find a place to host the machine. I am in Seattle. I
> > don't have any hard requirements or needs for it, but if someone
> > has the space to plug this thing in, and it would be beneficial to
> > the development of FreeBSD/PPC64, I would be happy to offer its
> > services to the community.
> > 
> > Thank you all for your dedication
> > Stephanie  
> 
> amazing! is there any chance to get powervm support into freebsd? i
> would replace my linux lpars right away.
> 
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FreeBSD already supports pseries, which I use with Qemu/KVM.  Is there
more that's needed specific for PowerVM?  If so, I'd love to know so we
can do that.

- Justin