Re: Hardware
"Goetz T. Fischer" <[email protected]> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:10:05 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc |
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| Organization | R-A-C |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
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..