On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 12:35:13AM +0800, Mikael wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I asked IBM to donate 4-10 Power8 servers to the OpenBSD Foundation, for
> adding support for this arch. After 6 months this got all the way to their
> Director of the Power(8) Ecosystem & Alliances, that is the highest
> executive for the whole arch. Just right now, she's asking for a motivation
> for IBM to donate - she asks:
>
>
> "It would be helpful to know where you are seeing requests for OpenBSD on
> Power and what applications on top of OpenBSD are being requested. We have
> not seen any requests as of yet from our target clients. "
>
>
> Can you please collect answers to this question and post them here in this
> thread, or PM them to me. I'll forward your responses and they'll decide
> whether to donate Power8 devices to OpenBSD, based on them.
>
> ** Please tell the next 6-7 days!
>
> Thanks!
> Mikael
Do you have any contact within the OpenBSD project? Just asking for
donations, getting them then realizing that no developer is willing to
do the porting to Power8 can even be damaging to the project.
-Otto
