IBM P-Series
Contents
This is a WIP page to document the IBM P-series hardware, VM environments and FreeBSD support.
Overview
(TBD)
Supported Environments
- p-series-8.x + POWER8
- p-series-9.x + POWER9
- virtio / virtnet drivers
TODO environments
These may be supported for completeness / testing.
- pseries-7.x + POWER7
Known issues
- (2026/01) - FreeBSD-16 is not booting on pseries-7.x / POWER7; will need to understand why and fix
- (2026/01) - virt-balloon driver statistics are currently not functional
- (2026/01) - spapr network (spapr-vlan) doesn't work until an IP address is configured/forced up
Related Information
(TBD)