From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 3 10:57:48 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 744A9106564A for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 10:57:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from packages@amiga-hardware.com) Received: from mirkwood.electric-dreams.org (mirkwood.electric-dreams.org [IPv6:2a01:7e00::f03c:91ff:fe93:1cd]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E32DF8FC0C for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 10:57:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nyx.homenet.lan (124-169-239-244.dyn.iinet.net.au [124.169.239.244]) (authenticated bits=0) by mirkwood.electric-dreams.org (8.14.5/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q33AvhtJ014813 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 10:57:46 GMT Message-ID: <4F7AD7A6.8010706@amiga-hardware.com> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:57:42 +0800 From: Ian Chapman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120329 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org References: <4F798459.4000301@amiga-hardware.com> <20120402131132.78578915@zeta.dino.sk> <4F79A964.2070501@amiga-hardware.com> <20120402182030.c1729c36.torfinn.ingolfsen@getmail.no> <20120402232115.17e1358c.torfinn.ingolfsen@getmail.no> In-Reply-To: <20120402232115.17e1358c.torfinn.ingolfsen@getmail.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=10.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on mirkwood.electric-dreams.org Subject: Re: Newbie - Mac G5 Dual PPC 970 @ 2Ghz 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: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:57:48 -0000 On 04/03/2012 05:21 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: >> >> Maybe you can; does it have the same hardware? > > I really don't know. Anybody interested can look at the info I have found on my machine here: > http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powermac_g5_quad > To my untrained eyes, it looks like they are different; different cpu speed, different graphics cards. Thanks Torfinn. As you say they are very different, cpu, memory bus, very different model of graphics card and I think my G5 model predates yours by 2 or 3 years. -- Ian Chapman.