Re: Hardware

On Jan 15, 2026, at 3:53 PM, Goetz T. Fischer <g.fischer@r-a-c.de> wrote:
> 
> 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!

There is llan(4) now, but I don't think there's one for the VIO SCSI.

With llan(4), you could at least boot diskless. I haven't had much luck
with FreeBSD and VIOS however (see #279137).

FWIW to people in the thread, I think I have spare hardware to test with.
Let me try to inventory it, most of it is going to be POWER8. I could
provide access or figure out how to get it shipped out.