Re: the workaround for booting freebsd on broken kexec-lite firmware on openpower POWER8/POWER9

Timothy Pearson <[email protected]> Thu, 21 May 2026 14:48:08 -0500 (CDT)

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adrian Chadd" <[email protected]>
> To: "freebsd-ppc" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2026 1:29:44 PM
> Subject: Re: the workaround for booting freebsd on broken kexec-lite firmware on openpower POWER8/POWER9

> [snip]
> 
> oh i forgot! thanks to ivy, jessica and justin for working through
> this with me and figuring out what we could do.
> 
> 
> -a

Nice work!  The current PNOR images on our Talos II and Blackbird boxes don't have this bug, so if you run into this on Raptor hardware all you have to do is update the firmware.  This will continue to affect non-Raptor POWER9 boxes though, especially the ones from IBM.