From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 17 10:03:46 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FC1970D for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2013 10:03:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jau789@gmail.com) Received: from mail-la0-x231.google.com (mail-la0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8ACDF2FAC for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2013 10:03:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f49.google.com with SMTP id ev20so2133777lab.8 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2013 03:03:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=sk1Pe/tQFWgnqMuw1NOncume2rClsE0zyDw5IlL5lzk=; b=aLr+AAQNCNHAoqFtMK/wzfN0kpSuII+PHRpWFMzZuFekfbKVwSffD+YBu+6dDBwpBP uqw4df6eRTc2F3TJLxzeFuZfxQobG1akXpEmh4JA32cz3ic/c/GX81q2JzGkvBgKbAK3 NezX16RlfYCwjVBuJE9ZKLTcul/PvsIddunXhVUuG1/k+FMgXQICNJeJEc+Ot4Vclb8e vu+FzLaB4ZarJgjG8hdyB45KSZITopFSxCggZ1mGx6W0QCzmbRiRtVcrSkAsJ8zwjAoi 6DldSvDiZ+nuyoSqR/bFiUVegq0oT//fvXX+m9o3IwbUuRw2lMTjzZDvdZkeCXsk8HOM fZHg== X-Received: by 10.152.120.73 with SMTP id la9mr2150093lab.3.1376733823430; Sat, 17 Aug 2013 03:03:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [193.64.26.117] (ip193-64-26-117.cust.eunet.fi. [193.64.26.117]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id qa1sm650242lbb.1.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 17 Aug 2013 03:03:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <520F4A7C.6030800@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 13:03:40 +0300 From: Jukka Ukkonen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130809 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org Subject: G4 PowerMac runs FreeBSD 9.2-BETA2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 10:03:46 -0000 Since FreeBSD/ppc web pages list various PowerPC systems which have been successfully running with FreeBSD and G4 PowerMac is not included in the listing, you might wish to know that I am currently sitting by one of such systems which is at the moment running FreeBSD 9.2-BETA2 and building 9.2-RC2. The sysctl values below should cover any important details about the system... kern.ostype: FreeBSD kern.osrelease: 9.2-BETA2 kern.osrevision: 199506 kern.version: FreeBSD 9.2-BETA2 #0 r253704M: Sat Jul 27 15:38:28 EEST 2013 root@yggdrasil:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC kern.compiler_version: gcc version 4.2.1 20070831 patched [FreeBSD] kern.ident: GENERIC hw.machine: powerpc hw.model: Motorola PowerPC 7455 hw.ncpu: 2 hw.byteorder: 4321 hw.physmem: 1054072832 hw.usermem: 955838464 hw.machine_arch: powerpc hw.realmem: 1054072832 hw.platform: powermac Additionally the boot time messages show this... cpu0: Motorola PowerPC 7455 revision 2.1, 1000.27 MHz cpu0: Features 9c000000 cpu0: HID0 8450c0bc real memory = 1054072832 (1005 MB) avail memory = 1017073664 (969 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs I hope this helps. Cheers, --jau