Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:44:32 -0800 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Success on G4 XServe Message-ID: <479647A0.5070606@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <B32D3983-273D-478A-930D-AD4A47151E23@dragondata.com> References: <B32D3983-273D-478A-930D-AD4A47151E23@dragondata.com>
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Hi Kevin, > 1) Very strange, very rare but specific problems with the USB keyboard. This may be a generic USB problem: there have been a few similar reports on x86 platforms. > 2) Some acd errors get spit out on boot, but the cd still works fine: I noticed this appearing at some point during the 7.0 beta's. It's GEOM probing how large the media is. I'll investigate. > 3) The onboard "gem" ethernet interface doesn't seem to work right. I'll let Pyun YongHyeon take care of this one. > 4) ZFS doesn't seem to be getting built... Is it x86 only? It/s x86/amd64 for FreeBSD, though it runs on 32-bit big-endian sparc on Solaris so it's probably a matter of getting it to build. However, I doubt there is enough kernel virtual address space on FreeBSd/ppc for it to work effectively (512Mb). > 5) No SMP support yet, but I can't complain too much. :) I know Marcel has a dual G4 Xserve and was looking into getting it going. > 6) Running bison on here seems to produce incorrect output when building > mysql's parser. ... > The bison output of the parser built on a ppc system doesn't match > what's built on x86. One thing to look at here is any build warnings in the bison port on ppc. Anything to do with signed/unsigned chars, e.g. warnings about comparisons always succeeding, may be the issue. later, Peter.
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