Re: Hardware

"Goetz T. Fischer" <[email protected]> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:10:05 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc
Organization R-A-C
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:01:00 -0400, Calvin Buckley wrote:
> On Jan 15, 2026, at 3:53 PM, Goetz T. Fischer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> sorry i should have been more precise. i mean powervm + vios support. i.e. freebsd would support
>> the virtual vios disks and nics. otherwise it needs a pure, dedicated lpar with its own, 
>> exclusive
>> hardware which doesn't make much sense on ibm power systems.
>> that would be highly welcome!
> 
> There is llan(4) now, but I don't think there's one for the VIO SCSI.
> 
> With llan(4), you could at least boot diskless. I haven't had much luck
> with FreeBSD and VIOS however (see #279137).

i'm on power8 as well and tried a few versions last year and none would even boot. the bootloader 
couldn't find any devices if i interpreted the error messages correctly..