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trying to get anyone to care about the fact that FreeBSD 15.0 is about to be released and the installer doesn't boot on powerpc64le (pSeries / PowerNV) is surprisingly difficult.
re@ is now pestering people to fix it under the threat of declaring it an unsupported platform for the release, but that doesn't seem to be having much effect.
update on the FreeBSD ppc64le thing: apparently the ISO does boot on real hardware (Talos II) so for now i expect it will still be a supported architecture in 15.0.
the fact it doesn't boot under qemu is probably still a bug somewhere.
but the difficulty of finding anyone to test this is concerning: it seems like there may currently be *no* developers running ppc64le on real hardware. (as opposed to ppc64, which at least a couple of people use in VMs, often under Linux KVM; as it happens, there were no issues with the ppc64 ISO.)
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