From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 24 20:59:50 2005 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 9E7CF16A4CE for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:59:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp3.server.rpi.edu (smtp3.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C68643D31 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:59:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp3.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j3OKxgtq004187; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:59:43 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <86ekd1b03q.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <86ekd1b03q.fsf@xps.des.no> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:59:41 -0400 To: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ), ppc@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.3 Subject: Re: Mac mini 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: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:59:50 -0000 At 12:27 AM +0200 4/24/05, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: >Does anybody know if the mini > > - will run FreeBSD without too much trouble? > > - can netboot FreeBSD? If you check this mailing list back in late January, there's a few threads related to the Mac Mini. One of them has the subject of "Mac mini and FreeBSD - some initial details", which details how I got FreeBSD/ppc up-and-running on my mac-mini. (I bought a Mac-mini on the first Saturday they were available). Upgrading can be a bit tricky, if something goes wrong due to the new kernel. You have to resort to tricks to boot up the previous kernel. But for the most part, upgrading freebsd/ppc has gone okay for me. The port has definitely improved over the past few months. Note that if you are going to do your own buildworlds, then there are still a few updates to gcc that you will have to apply before trying to compile freebsd/ppc. Those haven't made it into the base system yet, even though many other ppc-related updates have been committed. Need updates to: contrib/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c contrib/gcc/config/rs6000/sysv4.h All of this is only available on 6.x-current. You cannot run 5.x-stable on FreeBSD/ppc. You also can't run cvsup on PPC, so I run cvsup on a source directory on one of my other FreeBSD machines, and then nfs-mount that on my FreeBSD/PPC machine. There have been a number of messages to this mailing list which have little bits of useful information. As Mauro noted, *some* of that info is collected in the FreeBSD developers' wiki at: http://wikitest.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/powerpc but not all of it. Of course, freebsd/ppc is very much a moving target, so some tricks that were important in January might not be as important now. I have no experience with netbooting my Mac-mini, so I can't say anything useful wrt that. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn =3D gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu