thanks for feedback you know that power is an open architecture that are growing on the market as it performs better than x
Skickat från min iPhone > 7 okt. 2019 kl. 17:17 skrev Thomas Lamprecht <t.lampre...@proxmox.com>: > > On 10/7/19 4:54 PM, Tomas Dalebjörk wrote: >> ok >> >> that is sad >> as qemu support other architectures >> so it cant be that difficult >> > > Yes, qemu itself supports them, that's not the issue. > But one needs to do the whole management around the CPU and it's platforms > hardware, that's what Proxmox VE is actually there. > And that can be huge work depending on platform differences, testing, > adapations > to future changes specific to that platform and all the other little things > add > up quick. > > The current implementation[0][1][2][3] can handle amd64 (duh) and somewhat > experimental arm64, while that part is rather limited and assumes mostly amd64 > like HW for the rest of the system. If you check out the implementation > you'll see that it's not all that easy, I mean maybe to bring some proof of > concept up, yeah, but to actually have it fully integrated, tested with > different possible OS and so on it becomes a non-trivial amount of work. > > Is it dooable, yeah, sure. But we have no need for it, and so do well over > 90% of our users (ballmarked). So why invest the time there instead of doing > other feature/bug fixes which help much more users? > > Note that you can always do yourself an implementation, we're opensource and > contribute after all. Maybe it's much easier to do than I currently belief > (have > not looked deeply in PPC, but having the arm64 part in mind I'd guess that I'm > not completely off) and if it's somewhat nicely integrated into the current > stack, not affecting the current amd64 parts in any negative way, we can take > it > in as experimental in the project too. > > cheers, > Thomas > > [0]: > https://git.proxmox.com/?p=qemu-server.git;a=blob;f=PVE/QemuServer.pm;h=83762607dcde15acca06bbe877157cbbcf993f1f;hb=HEAD > [1]: > https://git.proxmox.com/?p=qemu-server.git;a=blob;f=PVE/QemuServer/Memory.pm;h=b579955037f198eb0163eae7a3d97e81a5cc4e52;hb=HEAD > [2]: > https://git.proxmox.com/?p=qemu-server.git;a=blob;f=PVE/QemuServer/PCI.pm;h=e0bc1a24f104aa3beef08aa909cf4ca7c08a8aa2;hb=HEAD > [3]: > https://git.proxmox.com/?p=qemu-server.git;a=blob;f=PVE/QemuServer/USB.pm;h=d328148539fc9245a2ac58fb442e5e307578b7bd;hb=HEAD > >> Skickat från min iPhone >> >>>> 7 okt. 2019 kl. 12:32 skrev Dietmar Maurer <diet...@proxmox.com>: >>> >>> >>>> >>>> I would like ask if it is possible to add other CPU types to the proxmox >>>> admin interface >>>> Such as PowerPC (ppc64le/be) and s390x >>> >>> There are no plans to add ppc or s390. >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> pve-devel mailing list >> pve-devel@pve.proxmox.com >> https://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel >> > > > _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@pve.proxmox.com https://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel
