Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 22:52:37 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Phil Regnauld <regnauld+ppc@catpipe.net> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPC miniinst.iso available Message-ID: <41D94015.2000206@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050102145218.GA9189@flow.eu.org>
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Hi Phil, > It works like a charm, I haven't been able to panic the system yet, > (a G4-400 with 512 MB of RAM). Been building a few ports (couldn't get > cvsup to compile, the modula3 dependency is a bit daunting) I think cvsup would take a lot of work to get going - it needs ppc support for modula3, I think. > So far very few glitches, like kldxref not dealing very well with the PPC > object files: > > kldkldxref: error while reading /boot/kernel/ipfw.ko: Bad address I'll check this one out. There are a couple of kld changes that are in the miniinst, but not in CVS yet. > And the fact that the disks are running in BIOSPIO mode, Yep, getting to that :) > Since I'm in an adventurous mode, I'll try and see how much of X.org I > can get built :) I built XFree86 client libs a while back and it seemed to work OK when displaying remotely. For the server, it could be a bit difficult. When I tried to build the XFree86 server, the patches needed quite a bit of PPC support added (e.g. defining the byte-order etc). I guess it's a cross between FreeBSD/Alpha and NetBSD/PPC. > Nice work Peter and all the others! Thanks! later, Peter.home | help
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