OpenBSD powerpc64


OpenBSD/powerpc64 runs on PowerNV machines using the IBM POWER9 processors.

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The current port maintainer is Mark Kettenis (kettenis@openbsd.org). Others are definitely welcome to contribute!


History:

OpenBSD 6.8 was the first official release of OpenBSD/powerpc64.

And since there are always little bits missing, work is continuing...


Current status:

Currently OpenBSD/powerpc64 supports POWER9 processors and runs stably on PowerNV machines based on the Raptor Computing Systems Talos II and Blackbird boards. Support for POWER8 processors is included but untested.

OpenBSD/powerpc64 does not run under a hypervisor such as PowerVM or PowerKVM.


Supported hardware:

Supported machines

OpenBSD/powerpc64 is known to work on the following machines:

OpenBSD/powerpc64 is expected to run on IBM PowerNV systems as well. Please give it a try if you have access to such hardware.


Getting and installing OpenBSD/powerpc64:

The latest supported OpenBSD/powerpc64 release is OpenBSD 7.4. Here are the OpenBSD/powerpc64 installation instructions.

Snapshots are made available from time to time, in this location as well as on a few mirrors. Here are the OpenBSD/powerpc64 snapshot installation instructions as well.

There are several types of installation media provided, so that OpenBSD/powerpc64 can be installed or upgraded via miniroot images as well as network installs.