From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 23 03:40:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@hub.freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3208916A41F for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 03:40:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E057D43D48 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 03:40:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j9N3eKqg069016 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 03:40:20 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j9N3eK2g069015; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 03:40:20 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 03:40:20 GMT Message-Id: <200510230340.j9N3eK2g069015@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org From: Peter Grehan Cc: Subject: Re: powerpc/87775: FreeBSD 6.0 will not boot on iMac (5 flavours) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Peter Grehan List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 03:40:21 -0000 The following reply was made to PR powerpc/87775; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Peter Grehan To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: powerpc/87775: FreeBSD 6.0 will not boot on iMac (5 flavours) Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:37:12 +1000 FreeBSD/PPC doesn't currently run on G5 CPUs. I guess I should put in some code that prints that out at boot-time until the support is there. From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 28 06:16:21 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 13E2016A420 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 06:16:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from hummer.onthenet.com.au (hummer.onthenet.com.au [203.13.68.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74BC443D48 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 06:16:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from [203.144.18.169] (CPE-18-169.dsl.OntheNet.net [203.144.18.169]) by hummer.onthenet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3EA319FA53; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:16:18 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4361C244.9090403@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:16:36 +1000 From: Peter Grehan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Simmons References: <006601c5d406$ea0a8f20$13b46743@TIM> In-Reply-To: <006601c5d406$ea0a8f20$13b46743@TIM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic booting install CD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 06:16:21 -0000 Hi all, I think I have a fix for the 'curthread != NULL' panic seen on some machines when booting. I can now hold down the 'C' key and boot on the old eMac. I've put up a tiny (4Mb) test iso image that contains just the loader, CHRP boot script and kernel: http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/sprg_test.iso Would those affected be able to give it a go ? The kernel should now get to the 'mountroot>' prompt. later, Peter. From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 28 13:46:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25A9A16A41F; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:46:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from TimSimmons@championrealty.com) Received: from mail.championrealty.com (mail.fnistools.com [206.54.148.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2AA643D48; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:46:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from TimSimmons@championrealty.com) Received: from TIM [67.103.180.19] by mail.championrealty.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.15) id ABA96294011C; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:46:17 -0500 From: "Tim Simmons" To: "'Peter Grehan'" Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:46:21 -0400 Message-ID: <002201c5dbc5$fb13b460$13b46743@TIM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 thread-index: AcXbhxwxNVklzaazR5mGp16K2ecCGgAPsapA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 In-Reply-To: <4361C244.9090403@freebsd.org> X-Declude-Sender: TimSimmons@championrealty.com [67.103.180.19] X-Declude-Spoolname: D2BA96294011C7FF9.SMD X-Declude-Scan: Score [0] at 08:46:18 on 28 Oct 2005 X-Declude-Tests: Whitelisted X-Country-Chain: Organization: Fidelity National Real Estate Solutions Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: RE: panic booting install CD 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: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:46:20 -0000 Stick a fork in this one, Peter. Works perfectly. Tim Simmons IT Technician Champion Realty, Inc. TimSimmons@ChampionRealty.Com Direct:410-975-3028 Fax: 410-647-1187 -----Original Message----- From: Peter Grehan [mailto:grehan@freebsd.org] Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 2:17 AM To: Tim Simmons Cc: 'Graham J Lee'; freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic booting install CD Hi all, I think I have a fix for the 'curthread != NULL' panic seen on some machines when booting. I can now hold down the 'C' key and boot on the old eMac. I've put up a tiny (4Mb) test iso image that contains just the loader, CHRP boot script and kernel: http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/sprg_test.iso Would those affected be able to give it a go ? The kernel should now get to the 'mountroot>' prompt. later, Peter. From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 28 15:12:06 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 606FF16A41F for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:12:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Daniel.Hawker@animal.co.uk) Received: from f2.mail.community.net.uk (f2.mail.community.net.uk [195.72.171.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1B6743D46 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:12:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Daniel.Hawker@animal.co.uk) Received: from s1.mail.community.net.uk ([195.72.164.145]) by f2.mail.community.net.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.54) id 1EVVtk-0000rs-MP for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:12:04 +0100 Received: from ip186.net177.adsl.community.co.uk ([195.72.177.186] helo=itchy.animalkingdom.local) by mail.community.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EVVtk-0003di-FL for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:12:04 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.6944.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:12:52 +0100 Message-ID: <405C9133F90F64479D822B1001D86AE032771F@itchy.animalkingdom.local> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Older PPC machines... Thread-Index: AcXb0hDjuGoTmdQNTDKfQ5UFFpzQrw== From: "Hawker, Daniel" To: Subject: Older PPC machines... 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: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:12:06 -0000 Hi All, My first post, so please be nice :) Have a few old Macs in the garage that I use for various tasks (door stop, DNS, etc), presently running Linux PPC (Yellow Dog Linux 4) or Mac OS9 (dual booting on one). This was admittedly a bit of a pain to install (these older machines need a slightly different kernel to allow for certain hardware) and I had to scour the web for info to get them going. I'd like to install FreeBSD on one of these machines, more as a project than as a real reason to accomplish anything and wondered if these are at all compatible. As mentioned its only really an experiment, I have FreeBSD running on a Sony Vaio Picturebook for a web development and general messing about machine, so if it's a no-go I'll leave it on Linux, but I'd prefer to run FreeBSD if at all possible. I have noticed that there is a PPC version of NetBSD available, so I guess I could use that if need be, however am more familiar with FreeBSD. If these older machines are unsupported (and there is a plan for them to be supported) I'd be willing to do some testing of some sorts. The hardware I have is below. Thanks Dan -- PowerMac 7600/132 with 192MB RAM PowerMac 9500/180MP with 384MB RAM (dual processor board, yes actually has 2 processors too) (both of these are pure SCSI machines, ie have SCSI hard disks and CDROMs, no IDE at all, which makes getting largeish hard disks either hard or impossible). Random set of hardware, including... ADB mice/keyboards Iomega Zip & Jaz drives (SCSI) Linotype Jade2 Scanner (SCSI) A number of external SCSI hard disks PCI Ethernet card (Kingston EtheRX KNE100TX) PCI USB card (Belkin IIRC) PCI SCSI card (Adaptec AHA-2940U) - not presently doing anything apart from being plugged in and powered up. AppleVision 1710 monitors (some other stuff in a box buried under loads of general rubbish) From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 28 23:34:51 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 95B9C16A41F for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:34:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from hummer.onthenet.com.au (hummer.onthenet.com.au [203.13.68.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3923143D45 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:34:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from [203.144.18.169] (CPE-18-169.dsl.OntheNet.net [203.144.18.169]) by hummer.onthenet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E64E19FBD8; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:34:49 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4362B5AA.9030602@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:35:06 +1000 From: Peter Grehan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Simmons References: <002201c5dbc5$fb13b460$13b46743@TIM> In-Reply-To: <002201c5dbc5$fb13b460$13b46743@TIM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic booting install CD 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: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:34:51 -0000 Tim Simmons wrote: > Stick a fork in this one, Peter. Works perfectly. Thanks for testing Tim. I'll commit to HEAD, but it may not make it into 6.0-RELEASE. I'd like to do a bit more testing of it myself anyways. later, Peter. From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 28 23:38:37 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 9D2F916A41F for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:38:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from hummer.onthenet.com.au (hummer.onthenet.com.au [203.13.68.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE72943D96 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:38:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from [203.144.18.169] (CPE-18-169.dsl.OntheNet.net [203.144.18.169]) by hummer.onthenet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 984C719FBD8; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:38:25 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4362B682.8030401@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:38:42 +1000 From: Peter Grehan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Hawker, Daniel" References: <405C9133F90F64479D822B1001D86AE032771F@itchy.animalkingdom.local> In-Reply-To: <405C9133F90F64479D822B1001D86AE032771F@itchy.animalkingdom.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Older PPC machines... 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: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:38:37 -0000 Hi Dan, > PowerMac 7600/132 with 192MB RAM > PowerMac 9500/180MP with 384MB RAM (dual processor board, yes actually > has 2 processors too) FreeBSD won't run on these - the oldest known one to boot is a revA iMac. The NetBSD model support page indicates that both of these are supported. You might want to give that a try: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html later, Peter.