Kai Wetlesen [kwetlesen@mac.com] wrote:
> 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?
>
OpenBSD is moving ahead on armv7, arm64, and mips64 (loongson, octeon, sgi) as viable alternatives to i386/amd64. Other platforms are not well supported usually due to lack of available hardware and, therefore, developer interest.
If you want to make it happen, hardware is needed. At a minimum, you need capable machines in the hands of several interested developers. That's the bare minimum. A code base with basic driver support, like macppc, socppc or peagsus is a major kick-starter, too. But those are old enough that they may not be very helpful with a non-Apple 64-bit PPC machine.
Since there is little interest in this platform overall (from what I can tell), it would require a miracle for this to happen right now.
Chris
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