Fwd: What about the IBM POWER7 and POWER8 platforms, did anyone ever think about porting these to OpenBSD?

[Joe Nosay]

I'm doing this so that you - the OpenBSD PowerPC team - will have others to
aid and assist you. There is no reason why the codebase should remain just
with one.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt at cvs.openbsd.org>
Date: Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 1:30 AM
Subject: Re: What about the IBM POWER7 and POWER8 platforms, did anyone
ever think about porting these to OpenBSD?
To: Tinker <tinkr at openmailbox.org>
Cc: ppc at openbsd.org


> Reading through all docs and email archives for OpenBSD, I cannot find a
> single mentioning of the IBM POWER processors, e.g., the POWER7 such as
> IBM Power 720 Express [1], or the Tyan BP012 or IBM S812L which feature
> Power8 [2].
>
> Power8 is a BIG DEAL, or at least it should be, e.g. see
>
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2413565/ibm-claims-power8-systems-beat-x86-for-performance-per-dollar
> - it's faster than Xeons.
>
> And perhaps safer?

If you send me a private mail and I'll give you addresses to get
machines delivered to.  I'd make a guess that 3-4 people need machines
to ensure progress.

Thanks for your offer.