State of IBM POWER Support on FreeBSD
summary
FreeBSD ports are rebuilt on a POWER9 server and many failing builds are fixed, with work covering powerpc, powerpcspe and powerpc64 and endian issues (FreeBSD remains big-endian on most POWER hardware). The ports tree now builds about 25–29k packages on POWER after fixes. Toolchain migration from GCC 4.2 to LLVM is imminent, 32-bit linker support and some Node.js patches remain, and basic hardware works: Radeon driver up to HD7000 (no acceleration), HDMI audio, USB, and ZFS root with custom install.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to talk
- 1:46What is FreeBSD
- 3:23Why use FreeBSD
- 8:37Issues on Power architectures
- 12:01Compiler and toolchain challenges
- 17:35What works on Power now
- 21:37Ports tree progress
- 24:23Future improvements
- 28:51Community and support
- 32:00Q&A session
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