From owner-freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Mon Apr 29 20:58:18 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C03C9159E0B5 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2019 20:58:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) Received: from atl4mhob09.registeredsite.com (atl4mhob09.registeredsite.com [209.17.115.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9717751A2 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2019 20:58:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) Received: from mailpod.hostingplatform.com (atl4qobmail02pod2.registeredsite.com [10.30.77.36]) by atl4mhob09.registeredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id x3TKwAB0015846 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2019 16:58:10 -0400 Received: (qmail 37909 invoked by uid 0); 29 Apr 2019 20:58:10 -0000 X-TCPREMOTEIP: 99.253.177.25 X-Authenticated-UID: dclarke@blastwave.org Received: from unknown (HELO ?172.16.35.3?) (dclarke@blastwave.org@99.253.177.25) by 0 with ESMTPA; 29 Apr 2019 20:58:10 -0000 To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org From: Dennis Clarke Subject: from bugid 235060 FreeBSD-12.0-RELEASE-powerpc-powerpc64-disc1.iso install test Message-ID: <2e078e99-ffbf-6df4-ac5c-1a0ad908fd3c@blastwave.org> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 16:58:09 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/67.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: C9717751A2 X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.47 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.63)[-0.630,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.56)[0.563,0]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.54)[-0.536,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[blastwave.org]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: mx1.netsolmail.net]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[47.115.17.209.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:19871, ipnet:209.17.112.0/21, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(0.08)[ipnet: 209.17.112.0/21(0.26), asn: 19871(0.21), country: US(-0.06)] X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 20:58:18 -0000 re: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235060#c17 > Francis Little 2019-04-29 20:48:16 UTC > > Hi, not sure if its useful, > > I have just installed 12.0-RELEASE - using: > FreeBSD-12.0-RELEASE-powerpc-powerpc64-disc1.iso - on a PowerMac G5 > Quad with 8GB Ram, the system booted from the CD and installed fine > with no intervention. > > On rebooting after the install, I had to set usefdt=1 to get it to > boot as the system would just freeze part way through the kernel > loading. Very good to know. That is what I see however I also use kern.smp.disabled so the question I have is how may processor cores are you seeing as functional? -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional