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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 03:44:15PM -0500, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> Doing this also provides a number of other benefits: it shares code 
> between PowerPC and sparc64, unifies the AIM and Book-E nexus 
> implementations on PPC, and makes it easier to have non-Open Firmware 
> platforms on PPC (the original motivation for the work).

Do the last words mean that soon I will be able to install FreeeBSD on
Power Macintosh 6100 I happen to have?  :-)

./danfe