From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 21 14:26:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02F701065671 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:26:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from simonychang@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0BDF8FC25 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:26:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from simonychang@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so1728789wxd.7 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:26:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=N9ooaR2it/NO2XbU/iB/fBtEF5yd1E0hxiehYSjjS3c=; b=XrjEyX/E2U8KARw913naDknCjULNcFWmGNfuRMeIljpuBjLYXSG5qxJmIcj1HdTwCqMbrsSWygHGrpumUFDr2rmgGKZmeIKN/9yklbOZoMymi4LG9sNE/0EZsGWQnbNh/SX3izkuGksnkJp+oSmUsKPMaeul7/LX5dRsEyfvyj0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=nIRYo7mTt6Jl0H9Hbb70f2ZKWSLK+cgQv863Lm6rvFaANlzzhcQSkFJBsz3SCcuPlEpWVEJ+lt/Arp4JoC4jhijxkcafmGguMlQ/YloYos62St6do+uNqjg9tA2xlFBbcrStl8G/Sdvbs8Kzdw//QCvMoE3ax2YrfG9Q+Xn3gm8= Received: by 10.141.210.21 with SMTP id m21mr1311133rvq.14.1206109570145; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:26:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.97.14 with HTTP; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:26:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8efc42630803210726u1ce77cd7s5e650321dc9acc1b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:26:10 -0400 From: "Simon Chang" To: "K. Bradford" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Powerpc port X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:26:12 -0000 Hi there, On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:13 PM, K. Bradford wrote: > I have installed 7.0-RELEASE on an old Mac G4. > I have cvs'ed the latest sources (using the RELENG_7 tag) > in order to track 7.0-STABLE. <...snip...> Yeah, the information about FreeBSD seems rather biased toward i386/amd64/IA64 and maybe the Alpha. At any rate the PowerPC is officially a tier-2 platform so there isn't as much support available. What you can do, though, is to get basic information like device node names and such from NetBSD. I got NetBSD 3.0 running on my PowerMac G4/533 more than a year ago, and it ran just about flawlessly (it had some problems shutting down, i.e. froze, but other than that there was nothing I could complain about). Some of the setup information, particularly with regards to how OpenFirmware interacts with the boot loader and boot devices, may be relevant. At any rate, NetBSD has had considerable experience porting the OS to the PowerPC platform so it's worth a try. Check out this (huge!) how-to at: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-3.1/macppc/INSTALL.html Good luck, SC