On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 05:06:28AM +0000, Ralph Siegler wrote: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 12:29:21 +0800, Mikael wrote: > > [...] > > Power8 machine offers start at USD 2,850: > > http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/index.html > > > > And their standard prices are USD 5,530 and up, that is > > http://www.tyan.com/Barebones_TN71-BP012_BSP012T71V14HR-4T-3 . > > that is not an IBM Power E8xx or S8xx server, it can't for example run AIX > or system i, has different architecture > > Porting OpenBSD to Tyan would not give you an OpenBSD that ran on IBM > business system
Seriously? There is no big corporation behind OpenBSD so how could such OS as OpenBSD be considered by IBM bureaucrats to be installed 'on IBM business system'? Anyway, sending POWER8 to OpenBSD devs make sense only if any of the devs want to hack on this platform. We have couple of POWER8 at work, they are virtualization hosts having OPAL fw and they run RHEL for Power VMs under KVM as host's OS is just a RHEL clone. j.
