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

[Nathan Whitehorn]

We boot multiuser without problems in the simulator. There are some 
remaining issues involving the bootloader that need to be resolved for 
real hardware.
-Nathan

On 03/26/16 19:46, Joe Nosay wrote:
> When will bare metal access be ready?
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Nathan Whitehorn 
> <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org <mailto: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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