On 01/08/2017 08:12 AM, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
Le samedi 07 janvier 2017 à 22:14 -0500, Taiidan@gmx.com a écrit :
Ah thanks for the info, I had thought all IBM POWER8 systems had open firmware :( So to confirm, the more reasonably priced S812LC for 4.8K doesn't have it? What a shame.
The S812LC (codename Habanero) has OpenPOWER support but doesn't have OpenBMC support yet, so you can boot the CPU(s) with free software but the BMC can only use the non-free system it has preinstalled sofar.
It's not impossible that Habanero support gets added to OpenBMC in the future, but it's hard to say when and if it's going to happen.
Cheers,
I see. I had assumed the difference between both was simply corporate style marketing or a different CPU/ram and that IBM had simply opened its own firmware rather than making new firmware (why not....weird)
Is it possible to use it without the BMC by installing a graphics card or using a serial port? Can it initialize graphics attached to a VM or bare metal?
Paul, how do you feel about IBM's customer service? for that much money they had better deliver a native english speaking staff who knows what they're doing.