-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 For anyone wanting a more affordable development platform for POWER9, check out the Talos II Lite:
https://raptorcs.com/TALOSIILITE/ Hopefully we're getting down to a price point where coreboot development becomes more practical (if still a bit painful)? Looking forward to seeing coreboot on ppc64el systems! On 05/29/2018 03:45 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: > Sorry, can't add today....it's a little over 6,000 pages of new > documentation. Still, hardly light reading! > > On 05/29/2018 03:39 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: >> Register documentation was published today. Links to the three volumes >> (over 7000 pages of documentation!) > >> https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/File:POWER9_Registers_vol1_version1.1_pub.pdf > >> https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/File:POWER9_Registers_vol2_version1.2_pub.pdf > >> https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/File:POWER9_Registers_vol3_version1.2_pub.pdf > >> That leaves only the PHB documentation in process at this point. Almost >> there.... > >> On 05/12/2018 02:34 AM, Timothy Pearson wrote: >>> On 05/03/2018 06:02 PM, ron minnich wrote: > > >>>> On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 1:20 PM Timothy Pearson >>>> <tpear...@raptorengineering.com <mailto:tpear...@raptorengineering.com>> >>>> wrote: > >>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>> Hash: SHA256 > >>>> I think I was being a bit pessimistic / too careful here. We're close >>>> to getting the docs publicly released, but that doesn't help anyone >>>> wanting access right now, which is why I mentioned the other route. >>>> IBM's committed to getting the documentation released, they're just >>>> making sure that what they release is actually correct for the products >>>> it covers. > >>>> It might make sense to get our "working group" together over the next >>>> few weeks, by which time the documentation should be available in >>>> public >>>> form. > >>>> Are you interested in joining? :-) > > >>>> of course, but not until those docs are freed up. > > >>> We're getting there. First manual to be released is the processor user >>> guide. More to follow, including register documentation, in around a week. > >>> Users guide: > >>> https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/File:POWER9_um_OpenPOWER_v20GA_09APR2018_pub.pdf > >>>> Context: I've been trying for 2 years now to get OPAL released under >>>> dual gpl2 licensing with the current apache2 license, apache2 and gpl2 >>>> are not compatible, so we'd be in a bit of a mess should we use OPAL >>>> code in coreboot, and it would be easiest if we were able to use some of >>>> that code. > >>>> The first response from IBM was "why do you think you need coreboot?" I >>>> worked through that, and there was agreement in the end it ought to >>>> happen, said agreement reached about 2 years ago. Stuff Would Happen, I >>>> was told. After that, silence. > >>> We've reignited this. It's underway. :-) > >>>> This is pretty much par for the course with Power. In 1990 I spent two >>>> years getting an agreement that would allow me to .... get more >>>> agreements. > >>> We've plowed through this already and are at the action point. For the >>> most part, just let me know what you need and I'll see if we can get it >>> published. > >>>> So close doesn't count. Once I see the kind of docs I need to see, not >>>> requiring a clickwrap, and covering all aspects of every chip on your >>>> board, I'm in: I'll order a board. Until then, I can't really do much. > >>> Is the NIC an issue? There are several people working on REing the >>> hardware with some great progress [1][2], but there's really no way to >>> get Broadcom to ever release official documentation. Everything else on >>> the libre-friendly non-SAS version either has docs available or we are >>> close to getting them published. > >>>> Thanks for your efforts on Power! > >>> No problem! We still consider Power the best path forward for powerful >>> libre systems at this point, getting really tired of the other vendors >>> actively working against efforts to create open firmware (this includes >>> SiFive at this point). > >>> Will keep you posted as we get more docs published online, but thought >>> you and the others here might at least be interested in the users guide. > >>>> ron > > > >>> [1] https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/BCM5719 >>> [2] IRC discussions on #talos-workstation > > > - -- Timothy Pearson Raptor Engineering +1 (415) 727-8645 (direct line) +1 (512) 690-0200 (switchboard) https://www.raptorengineering.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJbGdTTAAoJEK+E3vEXDOFbns4H/iIVv7ftC4Td6/jMFaxc23x4 x0Ad24g+cgJXA6G6gzv+bw3Gr5JuFXLHnpq/SFcYCqrYXy45vjwkdxmfuU3K5mEB g0MeztDMP9wbw2TBa2J/Ny2pC7ljVHFruyO9KzmNitpcHXnx04THydVpGhwk+cKO g3V29HOUDxyrRvnAO4ubD6qSkds+Z++zZfiXRfU3uaNKH6NyNXYE1aBxp4XabSli Y7JtYETNcthgr85CbKxwhdFTBHEWEHTi35yT05E9X0VM0wlEVkoJMJdkrhvLT+lK q/jTfbemobNgJbs1ch1szl8Op8pbSjzt7oWQdVdJ4qCXASVYgxhu3pDdyp6vgWk= =z96o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot