Re: Hardware

On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:24:13 -0500, Justin Hibbits wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:12:10 +0100
> "Goetz T. Fischer" <g.fischer@r-a-c.de> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:26:49 -0800, Stephanie Sunshine wrote:
>>> Greetings everyone,
>>> 
>>> With all the recent activity I just want to throw it out there that
>>> I have one of the IBM Power8 machines, in storage, that I would be
>>> happy to turn on and give access to any of the developers if I
>>> could just find a place to host the machine. I am in Seattle. I
>>> don't have any hard requirements or needs for it, but if someone
>>> has the space to plug this thing in, and it would be beneficial to
>>> the development of FreeBSD/PPC64, I would be happy to offer its
>>> services to the community.
>>> 
>>> Thank you all for your dedication
>>> Stephanie
>> 
>> amazing! is there any chance to get powervm support into freebsd? i
>> would replace my linux lpars right away.
>> 
> FreeBSD already supports pseries, which I use with Qemu/KVM. Is there
> more that's needed specific for PowerVM? If so, I'd love to know so we
> can do that.

sorry i should have been more precise. i mean powervm + vios support. i.e. freebsd would support 
the virtual vios disks and nics. otherwise it needs a pure, dedicated lpar with its own, exclusive 
hardware which doesn't make much sense on ibm power systems.
that would be highly welcome!