[Libre-soc-dev] svp64 review and "FlexiVec" alternative

[Lauri Kasanen]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:08:30 -0500
Jacob Bachmeyer via Libre-soc-dev <libre-soc-dev at lists.libre-soc.org>
wrote:

> > the IBM LibreBMC team did recompile everything with "-mnovsx
> > -mnoaltivec" and for the most part this worked except for QFP and
> > except for when Tulio's patch wasn't added upstream.
>
> Is this the POWER9 service processor I have heard about that runs its
> very own Linux-based system, such that, after power-on, the machine
> "plays dead" for about a minute while the service processor boots?

Most big servers use such a setup, with the management system booting
first, and it then boots the big system.

LibreBMC is future though, not shipping yet, AFAIK. The
current boxes, at least the small ones, use ARM in the BMC (ast2500).

The 1-minute boot is a separate issue, there's already much faster
software for the current BMC as well. I think under 10s.

- Lauri