From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 22 19:44:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68ACA16A41B for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:44:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from dommail.onthenet.com.au (dommail.OntheNet.com.au [203.13.70.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 045DC13C45B for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:44:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from excfreebsd.hq.netapp.com (nat-198-95-226-228.netapp.com [198.95.226.228]) by dommail.onthenet.com.au (MOS 3.7.5a-GA) with ESMTP id DMO32556 (AUTH peterg@ptree32.com.au); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:44:42 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <479647A0.5070606@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:44:32 -0800 From: Peter Grehan User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070525) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Day References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Success on G4 XServe X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: grehan@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:44:51 -0000 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.