Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 23:32:40 -0800 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>, Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>, Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> Subject: Re: revision 341104 quite unusable Message-ID: <5D62A1CD-8479-47F8-8CE7-D4CBC09D996C@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <cf62b8f1-689c-cdf4-ceda-7dcdf22e769f@blastwave.org> References: <62bd5352-6eb5-ea4c-fd5b-fd4d1a35186b@blastwave.org> <7534F42F-5BFA-4C94-B387-A42F10B5B389@yahoo.com> <0a223db3-8c88-faa9-5cfe-983ada996d4e@blastwave.org> <F33F6393-8B42-46B7-96C6-66D9C39FFA2F@yahoo.com> <70945861-107c-b271-93fe-110127d90ba4@blastwave.org> <554F1239-57F9-462D-918D-6E1FD8ABF9D6@yahoo.com> <cf62b8f1-689c-cdf4-ceda-7dcdf22e769f@blastwave.org>
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On 2018-Nov-28, at 14:50, Dennis Clarke <dclarke st blastwave.org> wrote: > . . . > Not a problem. As Paul Mather was very cool to point out this old ppc64 > PowerMac G5 is a tier 2 type platform with tier whenever type real world > expectations. I think a Power9 server is really needed but one step at > a time here. powerpc families are all tier 2, including Power9. > . . . > OKay well, as I was saying at lung exhaustive length, I have yet to see > anything build and boot other than the RC2 dvd. At least in a natural > way. And you started from a context that was observed to be a problem before you even had started (as far as I can tell). If you want things to be more likely to work directly, you would back up to source vintages from before the problem was observed initially for hardware contexts similar to yours. You could always tackle the later issues later. === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar)
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