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Date:      Tue, 22 Sep 2020 17:50:52 -0700
From:      Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
To:        Brandon Bergren <bdragon@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: head -r365932 on PowerMac G5 (2 dual-core sockets): Crashes before login prompt if powerd is enabled in /etc/rc.conf
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On 2020-Sep-22, at 17:18, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:
>=20
> On 2020-Sep-22, at 17:12, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:
>=20
>> On 2020-Sep-22, at 14:43, Brandon Bergren <bdragon at FreeBSD.org> =
wrote:
>>=20
>>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020, at 4:27 PM, Mark Millard wrote:
>>>>=20
>>>> On the 2 dual-core socket G5:
>>>>=20
>>>> # sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq
>>>> dev.cpu.0.freq: 2500
>>>=20
>>> OK, thanks for the confirmation.
>>>=20
>>> FWIW I still haven't found time to figure out what's going on with =
dual-processor G4. But it breaking even earlier than usual is indeed a =
regression over last time I tested it, where it would work until smp, at =
which point IIRC it would have timebase issues.
>>>=20
>>> I'll burn some boot media and check mine.
>>=20
>> I can not boot the G3 or any of the G4's that I have
>> now tried, including single socket ones. All die
>> immediately.
>=20
> By "immediately" I mean I do not even get close to
> seeing the loader prompt. The display still shows
> OpenFirmware content: it has not been cleared yet.
>=20

Just to be explicit: the dual socket G4 is the only type
of G3/G4 that does make it to the loader prompt (and a
little beyond). The G5 2 dual-core sockets is the only
context that I've tried that gets very far past the
loader prompt.


=3D=3D=3D
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
( dsl-only.net went
away in early 2018-Mar)




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