Re: OpenBSD on IBM Power

2014-04-14 Thread Kapetanakis Giannis
On 14/04/14 03:48, Zeljko Jovanovic wrote: On 09.04.2014. 18:24, Fil Di Noto wrote: Is there any hope of OpenBSD running on IBM Power hardware (System P, LPAR) in the future? ... OS on that hardware without cooperation from IBM? I don't see any Linux distros that do not have a relationship

Re: OpenBSD on IBM Power

2014-04-14 Thread Zeljko Jovanovic
On 14.04.2014. 04:53, Nick Holland wrote: um. Linux kernel 2.4? Are you kidding me? dead dead dead. I said the port was old and had not been maintained for a long time. :) In any case, if one wants the current Slackware on System Z, I am sure this old version could be used as a starting

Re: OpenBSD on IBM Power

2014-04-14 Thread Theo de Raadt
Linux on an architecture we don't run on? You are posting to the wrong list. um. Linux kernel 2.4? Are you kidding me? dead dead dead. I said the port was old and had not been maintained for a long time. :) In any case, if one wants the current Slackware on System Z, I am sure this old

Re: OpenBSD on IBM Power

2014-04-13 Thread Zeljko Jovanovic
On 09.04.2014. 18:24, Fil Di Noto wrote: Is there any hope of OpenBSD running on IBM Power hardware (System P, LPAR) in the future? ... OS on that hardware without cooperation from IBM? I don't see any Linux distros that do not have a relationship with IBM that run on Power. Slackware Linux

Re: OpenBSD on IBM Power

2014-04-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/13/14 20:47, Zeljko Jovanovic wrote: On 09.04.2014. 18:24, Fil Di Noto wrote: Is there any hope of OpenBSD running on IBM Power hardware (System P, LPAR) in the future? ... OS on that hardware without cooperation from IBM? I don't see any Linux distros that do not have a relationship

Re: OpenBSD on IBM Power

2014-04-13 Thread Jack Woehr
Nick Holland wrote: There's a lot of reasons developers can be interested in particular hardware The P series are perfectly good systems for AIX, Linux, and i Series OS (OS400). They would also be fine for OpenBSD if there were any call for that, but in the IBM community, the open-source *nix

Re: OpenBSD on IBM Power

2014-04-13 Thread Theo de Raadt
There are a bunch of things that are needed for an OpenBSD port, including at least: 1) Interest by a developer. Right. 2) Hardware in the developer's hand. Totall irrelevant. If there is interest, they will ask to get for it. 3) Availability of hardware for other developers at a reasonable

Re: OpenBSD on IBM Power

2014-04-13 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Zeljko Jovanovic zelj...@tesla.rcub.bg.ac.rs wrote: On 09.04.2014. 18:24, Fil Di Noto wrote: Is there any hope of OpenBSD running on IBM Power hardware (System P, LPAR) in the future? ... OS on that hardware without cooperation from IBM? I don't see any

Re: OpenBSD on IBM Power

2014-04-13 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Zeljko Jovanovic zelj...@tesla.rcub.bg.ac.rs wrote: On 09.04.2014. 18:24, Fil Di Noto wrote: Is there any hope of OpenBSD running on IBM Power hardware (System P, LPAR) in the future? ... OS on that hardware without cooperation from IBM? I don't see any

OpenBSD on IBM Power

2014-04-09 Thread Fil Di Noto
Is there any hope of OpenBSD running on IBM Power hardware (System P, LPAR) in the future? I've recently been working with this hardware and it’s pretty amazing. I can't speak to its future market share but there seems to be a lot of propaganda from IBM regarding “Linux on Power” which suggests

Re: OpenBSD on IBM Power

2014-04-09 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 9 April 2014 12:24, Fil Di Noto fdin...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any hope of OpenBSD running on IBM Power hardware (System P, LPAR) in the future? I've recently been working with this hardware and it's pretty amazing. I can't speak to its future market share but there seems to be a lot

OpenBSD on IBM Power System?

2008-09-30 Thread Rafal Bisingier
Hi, Is there any chance to install OpenBSD on a logical hardware partition created on IBM p-Series machine? There is a mac-ppc port, but as I understand it's only for apple hardware? Is there any one having some experience on this field? -- Greetings Rafal Bisingier