Fulltime work on a port definitely qualifies as a serious attempt. It is almost impossible to say for sure you can manage such a port. All I want is that this beauty is actively used for OpenBSD. Otherwise I'll keep it for my own developments or reuse the CPUs in a Thalos workstation if that's even possible.
And, yes the POWER9 architecture can run both in big- and small endian mode. Let's wait a bit more and see who's most "qualified" to take the task. I live in The Netherlands b.t.w. so shipping from there. On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 9:21 PM, Peter J. Philipp <p...@centroid.eu> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on a powerpc64 port, I've been at it 2 weeks non-stop. I don't > know if I'll finish. But I gotta say hey! this is a generous offer. > > Since I'm focusing on the big endian machine byte order and on PowerPC 970's > it would need to be ported again to little endian afaik. If it's possible > to run on a Power9 in big endian mode this would be cool. > > I believe I am not worthy of such a machine and only worthy if I port > OpenBSD to my PowerPC 970FX cpu. Let's take our time and wait to see if I > or anyone else moves in a positive direction in this area. > > BTW I've been working on a cross-compiler to powerpc64 today. I used > kevlo's riscv cross compiler port and modified it. Unfortunately I started > before sunrise and it's sunset now and i haven't managed to get cross-gcc > working. I may succeed tomorrow. > > Regards, > > -peter > > > > On 07/24/18 20:27, Pascal de Kloe wrote: >> >> I'm offering my brand new IBM 9006-22P with two 16-core 2.9GHZ CPUs to >> the OpenBSD project for free. Who can make the hardware port happen? >> Serious attempts only. > >
