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Date:      Thu, 24 Oct 2019 23:23:10 +0000
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Phil Scarr <phil.scarr@pm.me>
Cc:        georg@bege.email, owner-freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 11.3 or 12.x on IBM 9115-505
Message-ID:  <20191024232308.GA23833@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <A19BBF65-9783-4BF8-B279-D3787D774D92@pm.me>
References:  <B3B54E60-55FE-4B32-814C-EB1FDD1E8B9B@pm.me> <201d5187612f43a4bc3747f22e7a6712@bege.email> <A19BBF65-9783-4BF8-B279-D3787D774D92@pm.me>

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On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 12:11:41PM +0000, Phil Scarr via freebsd-ppc wrote:
> I'm disappointed that TeamLinux is so much further ahead than TeamBSD
> on this, but given the relative marketshare of each team, I can't say
> I'm surprised.  :-(

It's more that there are not a lot of these machines are in private
hands, compared to the older Macs and newer IBMs and especially the
Taloses.  My tests with Debian showed problems when I tried it several
years ago (just as a "does this box work" test).

AFAIK within FreeBSD we had a maximum of 3 people with IBM Power5s.

mcl



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