From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 13 09:13:04 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 384D9E2C for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 09:13:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from asp.reflexion.net (outbound-246.asp.reflexion.net [69.84.129.246]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C36CDF1 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 09:13:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 23955 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2014 09:13:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-cs-01.app.dca.reflexion.local) (10.81.19.1) by 0 (rfx-qmail) with SMTP; 13 Sep 2014 09:13:01 -0000 Received: by mail-cs-01.app.dca.reflexion.local (Reflexion email security v7.30.7) with SMTP; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 05:13:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 7719 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2014 09:12:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iron2.pdx.net) (69.64.224.71) by 0 (rfx-qmail) with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 13 Sep 2014 09:12:25 -0000 X-No-Relay: not in my network Received: from [192.168.1.8] (c-98-246-178-138.hsd1.or.comcast.net [98.246.178.138]) by iron2.pdx.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6B2831C4057 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 02:12:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Millard Subject: Same boot SSD: 8GByte PowerMac G5 Dual boots fine; 12GByte and 16GByte PowerMac G5 Quad cores usually hang... Message-Id: <40CEB6E7-2DB3-40ED-AE74-81151348A5E8@dsl-only.net> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 02:12:23 -0700 To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 09:13:04 -0000 Context: a boot SSD with FreeBSD FBSDG5S1 10.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 10.1-PRERELEASE #0 r271243: Mon = Sep 8 06:28:03 UTC 2014 = root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/powerpc.powerpc64/usr/src/sys/GENERI= C64 powerpc moved between PowerMacs. One PowerMac kind has no boot problems. The = other kind frequently ends up hung with a blank screen just before the = Copyright would normally show up: the start of the FreeBSD boot messages = never show up. (The fans eventually speed up.) The working PowerMac is the Dual Processor (single core each) PCI-X = based one: FreeBSD 10.1-PRERELEASE #0 r271243: Mon Sep 8 06:28:03 UTC 2014 = root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/powerpc.powerpc64/usr/src/sys/GENERI= C64 powerpc gcc version 4.2.1 20070831 patched [FreeBSD] VT: running with driver "ofwfb". cpu0: IBM PowerPC 970 revision 2.2, 2000.23 MHz cpu0: Features dc000000 cpu0: HID0 511081 real memory =3D 8569122816 (8172 MB) avail memory =3D 8148094976 (7770 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0: dev=3Dff887e10 (BSP) cpu1: dev=3Dff889150 [ 277.833] (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon 9800PRO NH (AGP)" = (ChipID =3D 0x4e48) An example of the frequently failing-boot kind of PowerMac Quad core G5 = PCI-Express context is: FreeBSD 10.1-PRERELEASE #0 r271278: Mon Sep 8 12:40:56 PDT 2014 root@FBSDG5S0:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC64 powerpc gcc version 4.2.1 20070831 patched [FreeBSD] VT: running with driver "ofwfb". cpu0: IBM PowerPC 970MP revision 1.1, 2500.34 MHz cpu0: Features dc000000 cpu0: HID0 1511081 real memory =3D 17152716800 (16358 MB) avail memory =3D 16374759424 (15616 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs cpu0: dev=3Dff89d680 (BSP) cpu1: dev=3Dff89eb70 cpu2: dev=3Dff89f248 cpu3: dev=3Dff89f920 (The other example I have access to has 12 GBytes of RAM instead. Both = examples behave the same.) [ 3310.669] (--) NV(0): Chipset: "GeForce 7800 GT" Some of the differences are (working context on left of "vs.", failing = on right): PowerPC 970 rev 2.2 vs. PowerPC 970MP rev 1.1 (I.e., two single-core processors vs. two dual-core processors) 8 GBytes RAM vs. 12 or 16 GBytes RAM (and slower vs. faster RAM) ATI Radeon 9800PRO NH (AGP) vs. GeForce 7800 GT clock rate: 2GHz vs. 2.5 GHz PCI-X vs. PCI-Express gem ethernet vs. bge ethernet Whatever the OpenFirmware and such details are for the two kinds of = PowerMacs. Merely having more than 2 GBytes RAM or 4 GBytes RAM is not enough = context for there to be a boot-hang problem. =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard markmi at dsl-only.net