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</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>&os; on POWER8</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Nathan</given>
<common>Whitehorn</common>
</name>
<email>nwhitehorn@freebsd.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Justin</given>
<common>Hibbits</common>
</name>
<email>jhibbits@freebsd.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Adrian</given>
<common>Chadd</common>
</name>
<email>adrian@freebsd.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/">Tyan development reference platform</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>IBM and the OpenPOWER Foundation are pushing for a wider
software and hardware ecosystem for POWER8-based systems.
Starting in January 2014, we have been doing bringup work on a
Tyan GN70-BP010 POWER8 server, a quad-core 3 GHz system with a
total of 32 hardware threads.</p>
<p>Updates since the previous report:</p>
<ul>
<li>&os; now boots under a hypervisor with the virtual SCSI
block device, the issue previously preventing this has
been fixed.</li>
<li>The powerpc64 pmap code was rewritten to be more
scalable, as the previous pmap code did not scale beyond a small
number of CPUs.</li>
<li>Initial support for IBM's Vector-Scalar Extensions
(VSX) was added.</li>
<li>The &os; kernel was made completely position
independent for powerpc64, and later powerpc32 as well.</li>
</ul>
</body>
<sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor>
<help>
<task>
<p>Get &os; booting natively, rather than under KVM. This
requires writing OPAL drivers for the various hardware
devices in the system.</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>Integrate loader(8) with petitboot.</p>
</task>
</help>
</project>
</report>