Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:29:56 +0200 From: Rafal Jaworowski <raj@semihalf.com> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Single user mode on G5! Message-ID: <48848144.5040609@semihalf.com> In-Reply-To: <48824C5A.2010805@freebsd.org> References: <48824C5A.2010805@freebsd.org>
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Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > Patches at http://banshee.uchicago.edu/~nwhitehorn/g5.diff. Beware that > kernels with INVARIANTS enabled do not run on G5s because of some issues > writing to the console in early boot and that the patch breaks building > loader, and thus world. These should be easy to fix, and will be fixed > once the system is working. Fantastic news, congratulations! I have one very general comment regarding naming scheme, which isn't even strictly related to your G5 work but the existing G3/4 port too. There is the 'OEA' prefix used, which came from NetBSD, but it seems rather unfortunate to me: Operating Environment Architecure is a generic term for certain layer in PowerPC definition nomenclature, and each implementation variant of the CPU has actually its own OEA defined... I think it would be better to change it to something more meaningful. Rafal
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