Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 18:39:31 -0500 From: Mehul Sanghvi <mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: ppc@freebsd.org, pkubaj@freebsd.org, linimon@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how many users of FreeBSD 12 do we have on powerpc? Message-ID: <19DE1938-D52B-47E9-B996-C822AAB3DD41@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20210212182055.GA17398@lonesome.com> References: <20210212182055.GA17398@lonesome.com>
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Yes this is a 32 bit PowerMac G4. I guess that explains things.
I do plan to get a 64-bit PPC at some point this year so would be going to Fre=
eBSD first since it seems like there is PPC64 support.
cheers,
mehul
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> On Feb 12, 2021, at 13:20, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote:
>=20
> =EF=BB=BFOn Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 05:18:53PM -0500, Mehul Sanghvi wrote:
>> But for some reason I couldn=E2=80=99t get pkg working, to install binari=
es
>> or even doing builds in /use/pkg.
>=20
> Hmm. Most of us who have powerpc machines have never had this problem ...=
>=20
> ... is this a 32-bit system? If so, that is why; we have never built
> official packages for anything other than powerpc64 (64-bit, big-endian).
>=20
> mcl
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