Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:49:32 -0400 From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: G5 boots multi-user! Message-ID: <p06240800c4ad1d98e460@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <48866C90.2010800@freebsd.org> References: <4885176C.8000206@freebsd.org> <48866C90.2010800@freebsd.org>
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At 6:26 PM -0500 7/22/08, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >I've fixed the crashing bugs and some issues with TLB invalidation, >and my G5 now runs stably. I can build ports, etc., and it is >reasonably fast. Updated patch here: > >http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/g5.diff > >Known bugs: >1. World builds are broken due to changes to CACHELINESIZE, > so build world first. I don't understand what you mean by this... Or does this mean one has to do a cross-build (from a different platform) for 'make buildworld'? >Aside from that, any single CPU G5 machine with AGP (single CPU >Powermac G5s and iMacs) should work without noticeable problems >aside from the broken NFS locking. Please let me know if this isn't >true. I can't easily test this right now, but this is very encouraging progress! The guy down the hall from me will probably be unhappy though. I was going to give him my old G5, but if FreeBSD runs on that then I'd much rather use that than my Mac mini! -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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