Hi IBM, This email followup was mostly to reflect that a member of the general public has asked for the support that a donation of OpenPower devices would lead to.
Feel free to forward it to the person at your company who has the power to sign off on a donation e.g. your CEO. This is a pro bono email. I personally think Power9/Power8 support is a useful thing and if 10x2,850USD would have been less than say 0.2% of my wealth, I'd simply have taken this matter through a web shopping cart. Have a good day. Thanks!, Mikael More 2017-05-25 13:52 GMT+08:00 Mikael <mikael.ml...@gmail.com>: > Hi Kai and IBM, > > Yes I did the attempts to contact IBM to get Power donations, as quoted by > axon below. A guy by the name Benjamin Herrenschmidt at IBM used the word > 'execrable' about me in PM, that was weird for a fund(hardware)raiser, and > sincerely quite disturbing to me. > > (My 'attitude' - after 8 months and 70 emails they delegated the matter > from their main office in the US, to Australia.) > > I think with respect to IBM donations, the relevant path would be to > enquire directly with their CEO Ginni Rommety, e.g. > https://www.ibm.com/ibm/ginni/ , also with reference to the massive > commercial value they have from OpenSSH. Anyone below does not have the > power to authorize donations. > > Gina and Adithya at IBM on copy for reference. If you can forward this to > your CEO would be great. Your cheapest multi-CPU Power9 or Power8 device > should be around 2000 USD production cost max, meaning this is a 20,000 USD > donation request, or for 20,000 / 80,000,000,000 = 0.000,025% of your > annual turnover, as a marketing and goodwill thing it couldn't be cheaper. > > > If you have 6 to 10 devices - just any, preferably multi-CPU - to donate, > please ship them over and we'll likely see support happen. > > If they need to be shopped, Tyan was selling them for 2850 USD a piece > recently, https://web.archive.org/web/20160118065359/http:// > www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/index.html . Maybe we're closer to Power9 > now. > > I like Power as it's server-grade hardware that I personally deem > preferable to AMD64. IBM's attitude about my hardware-raiser initiative > last year was execrable though. > > This email is a response to suggest a next step. I think everyone involved > has been personally well-intended and there was a certain sense of friction > in the realization that noone involved in the emails at IBM had the > authority to sign off on a donation. > > People like you and me are free to shop and donate. > > Mikael > > 2017-05-25 1:57 GMT+08:00 Kai Wetlesen <kwetle...@mac.com>: > >> Hi all, >> >> What is the current community interest in getting OpenBSD running on the >> newer POWER processors? I have a number of POWER based systems at work >> which run various Linux flavors, but it would be nice to bring OpenBSD to >> these systems as we’re been trying it out in different spaces throughout >> our division. What would it take to get a POWER port up and kicking? >> >> Regards, >> Kai >> > > 2017-05-25 8:42 GMT+08:00 Ax0n <a...@h-i-r.net>: > >> In summary: There are 3 people who have been quite vocal about getting a >> POWER port recently. None of them are developers with the knowledge or >> resources to port it. >> >> Big thread from late last year: >> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=147680858507662&w=2 >> >> A follow-up (late December 2016): >> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=148246956710299&w=2 >> >> Search link with some scattered and often-unrelated results: >> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&w=2&r=1&s=IBM+POWER&q=b >> > > 2017-01-03 14:52 GMT+08:00 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@au1.ibm.com>: > .. > >> Right, and as I mentioned, we hope to have reasonably soon much more >> affordable machines available as well, which will make it easier for us >> to sponsor community projects with HW donations. >> >> Cheers, >> Ben. >> > >
