Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 20:43:54 -0800 From: Julio Merino <julio@meroh.net> To: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how many users of FreeBSD 12 do we have on powerpc? Message-ID: <CADyfeQX9iRdoGOaKUg5H65jtTk-D_tbqYgJ4G4kuockv2SbdpA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <98a48c56-f350-9858-7924-4405197fcaf0@blastwave.org> References: <20210210223920.GA31353@lonesome.com> <d872ddc8-5366-4e8d-dd8f-5a9c872cbfad@neo-zeon.de> <CAOpTx7GkFh6v4i334g3nTHK3XXkDn6Z_5SYYYoj%2BZn4zo0Qj3Q@mail.gmail.com> <MWHPR17MB1021E4012D07A3EDF9B90128C18B9@MWHPR17MB1021.namprd17.prod.outlook.com> <72c3d9eb-12c1-4a3c-9a0a-6646e3a755fd@www.fastmail.com> <98a48c56-f350-9858-7924-4405197fcaf0@blastwave.org>
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On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 8:10 PM Dennis Clarke via freebsd-ppc < freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 2/12/21 9:03 AM, Brandon Bergren wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2021, at 12:39 AM, Damon Zwolinski wrote: > >> I have three G5s that are still on 10. I use CDs/DVDs to install and I > >> don't think I could get 12 to work that way. I'll try 13 this weekend. > >> > >> - d > > > > Make sure and do it with -BETA2 when it's out instead of using an > earlier version -- there was a bug introduced in December that was only > recently fixed that broke boot on G5, and -BETA2 will be the first version > to contain the fix. > > > > The images should hopefully be available sometime today. > > > > I am about to jump on this. Thank you. Do we still need to do some > fiddling at boot with kern.smp.disabled=1 and/or set usefdt=1 ? > > I seem to recall something odd about the old PowerMac G5 units not > allowing multiple processor cores. > I just upgraded my dual-processor G5 to 13-BETA2 and it's working well without any workarounds like the one you describe. (I do get occasional freezes though which I haven't been able to pinpoint, which seem to happen soon after boot sometimes. But they also happened with 12.2, so no surprises there.) I'm just now missing the prebuilt packages this thread was asking about. Maybe I should have waited a little bit to upgrade! -- jmmv.dev
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