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

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