On 10/7/19 7:20 PM, Tomas Dalebjörk wrote: > thanks for feedback > > you know that power is an open architecture that are growing on the market as > it performs better than x >
I never saw or used one, just heard some non-ideal stories about vendors[0]. So still waiting before calling this the next bigger thing one need to be able to buy HW to a price that gets you at least somewhat the same as amd64 HW does. We had the same wishes for arm64 over 3 years ago, a real "killer" platform is still not available - either old stuff, which while many cores it has so bad interconnects that you can not do anything serious with all of them; or newer stuff which you cannot get if you are not M$ or the like so not much of use for our community. I'd rather see RISC-V processors to gain traction, but also there we'll only be able to do anything once the platform are ripe _and_ publicly available to a sane price. cheers, Thomas [0]: https://drewdevault.com/2019/09/23/RaptorCS-Blackbird-a-horror-story.html > 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
