From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 25 18:13:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42AE916A41F for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:13:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pcasidy@casidy.com) Received: from scotty.galacsys.net (scotty.galacsys.net [217.24.81.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D76A343D45 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:13:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pcasidy@casidy.com) Received: from smtp.casidy.net (unknown [81.56.135.122]) by scotty.galacsys.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42559C50CC; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:13:06 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.14] (unknown [192.168.1.14]) by smtp.casidy.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A769B870; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:16:23 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43D7CDC5.5060800@casidy.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:13:09 +0000 From: Philippe CASIDY User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050827) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: matt@genesi-usa.com References: <001201c6218a$c743ca70$f8ad17ac@bakuhatsu.net> In-Reply-To: <001201c6218a$c743ca70$f8ad17ac@bakuhatsu.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there any support for the Peg II PPC hardware (planned)? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:13:08 -0000 Matt Sealey wrote: >We've already talked with them before and donated machines to FreeBSD PPC >maintainers (obrien was the one who had his name listed on the donations >page). Waiting for someone to add their name to the list is a little slow >though, it doesn't seem that if we shout "free hardware!" from the rooftops >that many people take notice. It is down to developer time, after all, >and not availability. > > > > > I have already tried to boot a snapshot of 6.0-PPC on a Pegasos I ( a phreeboard in fact) The system booted but failed later on. I spent some time trying to boot the board via DHCP with no success : I did not want to spend time building a system and create a boot cd. I bought and tried several network cards with no success. The information I get was the amount of supported card being able to netboot was somewhat limited. Would I have a better success with a Pegasos II ? Strange, I cannot find back my previous posts on the freebsd-ppc archive. I will download a snapshot and give it another try. Phil.