From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 19:02:03 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 927391065671; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:02:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp5.server.rpi.edu (smtp5.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C3628FC0C; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:02:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp5.server.rpi.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m6NHnX6O023837; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:49:34 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <48866C90.2010800@freebsd.org> References: <4885176C.8000206@freebsd.org> <48866C90.2010800@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:49:32 -0400 To: Nathan Whitehorn , freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org From: Garance A Drosehn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0) X-RPI-SA-Score: 0.10 () [Hold at 20.00] COMBINED_FROM X-CanItPRO-Stream: outgoing X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.113.2.225 Cc: Subject: Re: G5 boots multi-user! 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: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:02:03 -0000 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