From 83ef4cef30067d98659fca7476038a7688c21579 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:00:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add 2017Q4 PowerNV entry from Wojciech Macek --- .../news/status/report-2017-10-2017-12.xml | 105 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 105 insertions(+) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-10-2017-12.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-10-2017-12.xml index 5c0fb41fd0..4d09fabecf 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-10-2017-12.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-10-2017-12.xml @@ -346,4 +346,109 @@ any ports mentioned here, please consider fixing them. + + + &os; on PowerNV (ppc64) + + + + + Patryk + Duda + + pdk@semihalf.com + + + + + Wojciech + Macek + + wma@FreeBSD.org + wma@semihalf.com + + + + + Michal + Stanek + + mst@semihalf.com + + + + + Nathan + Whitehorn + + nw@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Semihalf PowerNV Official Repository + Skiboot Repository with the Latest OPAL Firmware + + + +

Semihalf is happy to announce that &os; is running on an IBM + Power8 processor. This project is a continuation of work done + by Nathan Whitehorn, who provided a basic support for a + PowerNV emulator.

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The IBM Power8 family of CPUs offers superior performance + compared to previous CPUs in the Power series. It provides + complete NUMA support with up to 128 execution threads in + two-socket system (2 sockets, 8 cores per socket, 8 threads + per core). All I/O communication is handled by an integrated + PCIe interface equipped with multiple IOMMU engines.

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The support for Power8 system running &os; in a non-virtualized + environment contains:

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All work is available in the linked GitHub repository. The + process of getting this work into the official repository has + already started and eventually, all commits will be integrated + into &os;-12 CURRENT.

+ + + IBM + + The FreeBSD Foundation + + QCM Technologies + + Semihalf + + Limelight Networks (Kevin Bowling) +