I would want to see running the Guix System on both POWER9 and the libre-soc. After I watched CPU tuning in GNU Guix[1], my first thaught was to add the SVP64 binutils to Guix as a second CPU variant.
[1] https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/cpu_tuning_gnu_guix/ Tobias On Wed, 2023-03-01 at 14:00 +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > > On Wednesday, March 1, 2023, <jbra...@dismail.de> wrote: > > March 1, 2023 5:11 AM, "Toshaan Bharvani | VanTosh" > > <tosh...@vantosh.com> wrote: > > > > Yes, please, I am interested. > > > I would use it for PowerEL, LibreBMC and LibreSOC. > > > All open source projects. > > > Is this just a board or also a CPU? > > > > It is just the motherboard. :) > > so someone has to spend maybe an additional... USD... 1000? > 2000? to get it into a useful state. minimum 128 GB preferably > a lot more than that (in order to host multiple VMs), > plus SSDs / HDDs, plus a minimum 1,000 watt power supply. > > > > donate to the university of Oregon, whose contact is Toshaan > > Bharvani. > > ah no. > > Two SEPARATE options: > > * donate to University of Oregon, whose contact is Sameer Shende, > and if they agree they can add it to the multiple POWER9 > systems which are already available to FOSS Groups through > the OpenPOWER Hub, have been for a few years now. > > * donate to Vantosh Ltd, whose contact is Toshaan Bharvani, > who already also hosts POWER9 systems for FOSS Projects > (Libre-SOC in particular), and who is the maintainer of > the PowerEL distribution. > > l. > >
