<TheJollyRoger>
Woohoo, I'm reading the design notes and seeing a shout-out to POWER9! Horay!
<qyliss>
I'm glad you're reading this now and not yesterday, because yesterday it significantly overstated what I thought I'd be able to do with POWER9
* TheJollyRoger
tries to puzzle out what this all means!
<qyliss>
basically I'd need to find somebody who could write 1kLOC or so to implement POWER9 support in the VM software
<qyliss>
it requires a bunch of specific knowledge about the architecture and stuff
<TheJollyRoger>
Oh wow.
<TheJollyRoger>
That's a lot of code!
<qyliss>
well, it's rust, so most of it is types :p
<TheJollyRoger>
I uh... I don't know how to program much beyond a few basic shell scripts, unfortunately I uh... I don't know how to help out with that :(
<qyliss>
I think it'll be a while before I find anybody who does!
<qyliss>
But maybe some day I will
<qyliss>
I'm sure there's someone out there
<TheJollyRoger>
Fingers crossed!
<qyliss>
Or I might be able to do it myself by studying a different VM program, if I have the time
<TheJollyRoger>
As I like to say in the Talos channel: "Go qyliss, go!"
<TheJollyRoger>
I wonder what it will look and behave like or what the User Experience will be like.
<TheJollyRoger>
I'm going to read the developer docs.
<qyliss>
TheJollyRoger: that's still pretty up in the air
<qyliss>
because there's been a lot of work implementing low-level VM stuff
<TheJollyRoger>
Got it.
<TheJollyRoger>
I wonder if now might be the best time to sit down and chat about usability and all!
<TheJollyRoger>
Or maybe later?
<qyliss>
Probably later, considering I'm on vacation now ;)
<TheJollyRoger>
Got it ^_^. Well hey, enjoy the vacation!
<TheJollyRoger>
I'll keep reading and see what I can find out! Maybe I can start looking at the code. I don't know enough code to understand it, but sometimes, just sometimes, I can *kind of* get a very vague idea of what it might do and be able to guess at the context.
<qyliss>
:)
<TheJollyRoger>
I wonder what else I can find out about this...
* TheJollyRoger
starts digging.
<TheJollyRoger>
I wonder if the hypervisor nested virtualization thingy on POWER9 might help any with testing.
<qyliss>
It would make it possible for me to get a cheap POWER9 VPS and test a VMM (virtual machine monitor) port on there, without having to have bare metal access
<TheJollyRoger>
Integricloud...?
<qyliss>
yeah maybe!
<qyliss>
although it depends if they actually enable nested virt
<TheJollyRoger>
Oh.
<qyliss>
I asked in #talos_workstation once but nobody knew
<TheJollyRoger>
Oh huh, I didn't think about that!
<TheJollyRoger>
Aw, crap.
<qyliss>
they might!
<qyliss>
at some point I'll just rent one for a short time and find out
<qyliss>
but I probably won't be able to look at power9 very much until I have stuff working on x86_64
<TheJollyRoger>
Okay!
<TheJollyRoger>
Fingers crossed! I heard that Raptor is really trying to be forthcoming with software support, hopefully tpearson will get back to you!
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