From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 7 07:27:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFCA616A41F; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 07:27:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from harmony.bsdimp.com (vc4-2-0-87.dsl.netrack.net [199.45.160.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6083E43D46; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 07:27:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1] (may be forged)) by harmony.bsdimp.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jA77PxlR003944; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 00:25:59 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:26:26 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20051107.002626.123446128.imp@bsdimp.com> To: grehan@freebsd.org From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <436DD693.1060902@freebsd.org> References: <436D34F4.50609@freebsd.org> <20051106.003724.97293247.imp@bsdimp.com> <436DD693.1060902@freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0 (harmony.bsdimp.com [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:25:59 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iMac Bondi 233 and 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:27:15 -0000 In message: <436DD693.1060902@freebsd.org> Peter Grehan writes: : > Well, 7.0-20051105-current.iso worked, so I'll likely try to install : > from that... I need to tear apart the machine I got and install a : > bigger hard disk first.. : : Note that the bmac ethernet driver isn't supported :( I did some work : on this a long while back (the mii interface works fine), but it's a : complicated beast since it relies on the general-purpose DMA engine : provided in the parent macio ASIC. Hmmm, yummy. I think a coworker had a contract to port the OSX driver to Linux at one point, complete with workarounds for ugly DMA bugs... : I did try an SMC USB ethernet part but that didn't work on first try, : and I didn't spend much time diagnosing it. I have a few different ones. I'll try my SMC 2202USB/ETH and see if it works. : > : The keyboard doesn't work with the debugger that early in the boot : > : since it's USB and hasn't been probed yet. I've thought in the past : > : about modifying syscons so that the PROM could be used until USB is : > : probed, but it's not pretty. However, it does allow 'boot -d' and : > : diagnosis for these types of panics. : > : > Yea. That would be cool. : : I'll dig up some patches. Cool. My 7.0 install is chugging along. I've been getting 114KByte/s on the install. I'll be waiting a while. Maybe I should upgrade the 4G drive that's in there... Warner