From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 9 18:10:25 2004 Return-Path: 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 EAC8416A4CE for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:10:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5713343D1D for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:10:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-ppc@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B0tAu-000379-00 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 03:10:24 +0100 Received: from anthonychavez.org ([166.70.126.66]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 03:10:24 +0100 Received: from acc by anthonychavez.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 03:10:24 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org From: Anthony Chavez Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 19:10:15 -0700 Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <40463F8E.000003.54621@LIFE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: anthonychavez.org X-PGP-Key: http://www.anthonychavez.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QsdUgg4FQ7N8d07kXSjlpSwBIl4= Sender: news Subject: Re: PPC port X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 02:10:26 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:31:45 -0500 Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > On Mar 9, 2004, at 5:36 PM, Anthony Chavez wrote: >> I've been interested in running FreeBSD/ppc on my 17" PowerBook G4---in >> multi-user mode, of course. Is this possible at this point, or am I >> just fantasizing? ;-) > > It works properly on my 15" Powerbook, and most (non-X) ports I > have tried seem to be working. However, the keyboard doesn't work > yet, as there is no driver for ADB. Also, it sometimes panics under > heavy IO load. Other than that, it's fine, and progress is being > made. This is refreshing news, but I'm interested to know precisely which Powerbook you have, since there appears to be significant architectural differences between the different models (at least that's the impression I get from the NetBSD/ppc Web page [1]). I'm quite unfamiliar with newer Apple hardware, so while this may seem trivial, would you mind pointing out which model you run FreeBSD on? [1] http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html#powerbook - -- Anthony Chavez http://www.anthonychavez.org/ mailto:acc@anthonychavez.org jabber:acc@anthonychavez.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFATnkKbZTbIaRBRXERAkOEAJ9jFh5XdTDnW5KXD83KokUqGRqiEgCff8Bd Ug6UuSFlg/sRMssCKUdMays= =qJ2B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----