What is the status of POWER8 and POWER7 in FreeBSD now, are they ready for production use?

[Joe Nosay]

When will bare metal access be ready?

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>
wrote:

> They are ready for production use if you are running under PowerKVM. We
> have specifically tested on the Tyan system. I don't know specifically
> about that Power7 system, but I have run on other POWER7 without problems
> and would expect the same here.
>
> PowerVM should also work if you use VIOS for storage, but has received
> much less tasting.
> -Nathan
>
> On 02/28/16 09:22, Tinker wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> What is the status of IBM POWER8 and POWER7 support in FreeBSD now, are
>> they ready for production use?
>>
>> POWER8 would be Tyan BP012
>> http://www.tyan.com/solutions/tyan_openpower_system.html .
>>
>> POWER7 would be IBM "P730" Power7 730 Express.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tinker
>>
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