Yeah, it’s easier to do a port with NetBSD than Linux since it’s better structured and simpler, but the 10% of supporting peripherals is much harder than the first 90% of architecture. Assuming it even supports your architecture - NetBSD doesn’t support modern Power at all.
Which is just bonkers since FreeBSD and OpenBSD (I think) does. When I finally turn my AIX POWER6 into a museum piece and replace it with the POWER9 Raptors, they’ll be running FreeBSD, maybe with an AIX VM as a bridge, even though I’d rather run NetBSD since most of my other boxes do.
Yeah, it’s easier to do a port with NetBSD than Linux since it’s better structured and simpler, but the 10% of supporting peripherals is much harder than the first 90% of architecture. Assuming it even supports your architecture - NetBSD doesn’t support modern Power at all.
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Which is just bonkers since FreeBSD and OpenBSD (I think) does. When I finally turn my AIX POWER6 into a museum piece and replace it with the POWER9 Raptors, they’ll be running FreeBSD, maybe with an AIX VM as a bridge, even though I’d rather run NetBSD since most of my other boxes do.
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OpenBSD only supports Raptor’s systems from the looks of it.
I’ve also had bad luck with FreeBSD on IBM systems; none of my POWER8s want to boot it; I suspect some issue with the bootloader.
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