Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:13:40 -0700 From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: "Nathan Whitehorn" <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: G5 boots multi-user! Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0807212313j73919327s3e8c8fdb9ef56a01@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4885176C.8000206@freebsd.org> References: <4885176C.8000206@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > There appears to be a bug in NFS not using using copyin() to get the > hostname from its arguments when a mount is being updating. Fixing that with > an #if 0 sledgehammer produces the following patch: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/nfs_vfsops.diff > > Combine that with the main G5 patch: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/g5.diff > > This produces a system that will boot multiuser on my iMac G5. It still has > plenty of bugs, to whit: > > 1) The system is extremely slow. Measured CPU clock speed is 50 MHz, which > is about what it feels like. I think it is in a low-power mode, but IBM docs > say it can only run at 1800 and 900 MHz. So this is probably an inefficiency > in the MMU module. > > 2) There remain several nasty panics. The system is not especially stable > yet. > -Nathan Nathan, Let me know if / when you need to test out some changes on a Powermac G5 UP system. Cheers, -Garrett
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