Re: Interest in POWER platform?

ok. thanks. i got it. there is no interest to make the kernel use page tables for itself. like this is not the case on other architectures.) btw, on ci20, you have 256 MB of RAM for the unmapped "feature" (another 256 is assigned to devices or reserved). I believe, 256 MB (25% of all the SDRAM)

Re: Interest in POWER platform?

> On May 25, 2017, at 8:28 AM, Karel Gardas wrote: > >> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 2:05 PM, valerij zaporogeci >> wrote: >> 2017-05-25 3:46 GMT+03:00, Chris Cappuccio : >>> >>> OpenBSD is moving ahead on armv7, arm64, and mips64

Re: Interest in POWER platform?

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 2:05 PM, valerij zaporogeci wrote: > 2017-05-25 3:46 GMT+03:00, Chris Cappuccio : >> >> OpenBSD is moving ahead on armv7, arm64, and mips64 (loongson, octeon, sgi) >> as viable alternatives to i386/amd64. Other platforms are not well

Re: Gina/Adityha, followup on donation request re OpenPower devices Re: Interest in POWER platform?

On 2017-05-25, Mikael wrote: > This email followup was mostly to reflect that a member of the general > public has asked for the support that a donation of OpenPower devices would > lead to. > > Feel free to forward it to the person at your company who has the power to >

Re: Interest in POWER platform?

2017-05-25 3:46 GMT+03:00, Chris Cappuccio : > > OpenBSD is moving ahead on armv7, arm64, and mips64 (loongson, octeon, sgi) > as viable alternatives to i386/amd64. Other platforms are not well supported > usually due to lack of available hardware and, therefore, developer >

Re: Gina/Adityha, followup on donation request re OpenPower devices Re: Interest in POWER platform?

On Wed, 24 May 2017 23:30:33 -0700 > I can't tell, are you trolling these people? > > Or, do you sincerely find these to be an effective set of techniques > to convince other people of your beliefs? IBM's revenues have been falling for a while so my guess is the only hope being that you expect

Re: Gina/Adityha, followup on donation request re OpenPower devices Re: Interest in POWER platform?

Hi Mikael, I can't tell, are you trolling these people? Or, do you sincerely find these to be an effective set of techniques to convince other people of your beliefs? This is a pro bono email. Chris Mikael [mikael.ml...@gmail.com] wrote: > Hi IBM, > > This email followup was mostly to

Gina/Adityha, followup on donation request re OpenPower devices Re: Interest in POWER platform?

Hi IBM, This email followup was mostly to reflect that a member of the general public has asked for the support that a donation of OpenPower devices would lead to. Feel free to forward it to the person at your company who has the power to sign off on a donation e.g. your CEO. This is a pro bono

Re: Interest in POWER platform?

Hi Kai and IBM, Yes I did the attempts to contact IBM to get Power donations, as quoted by axon below. A guy by the name Benjamin Herrenschmidt at IBM used the word 'execrable' about me in PM, that was weird for a fund(hardware)raiser, and sincerely quite disturbing to me. (My 'attitude' - after

Re: Interest in POWER platform?

Kai Wetlesen [kwetle...@mac.com] wrote: > Hi all, > > What is the current community interest in getting OpenBSD running on the > newer POWER processors? I have a number of POWER based systems at work which > run various Linux flavors, but it would be nice to bring OpenBSD to these > systems as

Re: Interest in POWER platform?

In summary: There are 3 people who have been quite vocal about getting a POWER port recently. None of them are developers with the knowledge or resources to port it. Big thread from late last year: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc=147680858507662=2 A follow-up (late December 2016):