Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 08:44:35 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: powerpc64 now in -CURRENT Message-ID: <4C41B3C3.3000701@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20100713164320.40351367@anacreon.physics.wisc.edu>
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On 07/13/10 16:43, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > As of r210025, 64-bit PowerPC support is now present in -CURRENT. > Thanks to all who tested this branch and gave feedback, in particular > Patrick Kerharo and Andreas Tobler for consultation and endless > testing, and to Peter Grehan for prodding me into doing this. > > Supported hardware: > - CPUs: PowerPC 970, Cell, POWER4, POWER5, POWER6, POWER7 > - Machines: Apple Power Macintosh G5, Apple iMac G5, IBM Cell > Simulator, Sony Playstation 3 (coming soon) > > New Features: > - Support for> 2 GB of RAM > - ZFS (patches under review, not yet in -CURRENT) > ZFS has now transitioned from 'coming soon' to 'in -CURRENT'. Please be aware that it has had extremely limited testing so far -- I made a zfs filesystem on my desktop and then checked out a ports tree into it -- so treat it with caution for the time being. -Nathanhome | help
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