From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 14 01:21:50 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 5F43A16A4CE for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 01:21:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from liberty.onthenet.com.au (liberty.OntheNet.com.au [203.22.124.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B866743D49 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 01:21:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from freebsd.org (CPE-19-124.dsl.OntheNet.net [203.144.19.124]) i7E1LlnP053126; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 11:21:48 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <411D6924.3040707@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 11:21:40 +1000 From: Peter Grehan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rionda@gufi.org References: <20040427163012.45685.qmail@web40703.mail.yahoo.com> <411D4581.8060500@freebsd.org> <1092440231.9273.30.camel@kaiser.sig11.org> In-Reply-To: <1092440231.9273.30.camel@kaiser.sig11.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any ISO's per Peter's instructions? 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: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 01:21:50 -0000 Hi Matteo, >> It worked fine on a revA iMac. Had some problems on the old >>366Mhz G3 iBook due to USB probing, > > Glab...that is exactly the kind of system i was going to try it. > well..I will wait until it will work, one day. Once upon a time it would just fail the USB probe rather than hang. I'll investigate further. > While I'm here, i would like to ask you a few questions: > can you predict a time for having FreeBSD ppc -RELEASE ISOs ? Looks like 'make release' is now working so I'll see if I can crank some ISOs out. > what are the show stopper defects that prevent FreeBSD-ppc from becoming > a Tier-1 Platform? Missing GDB. Documentation. No X. And as you're about to bring up: > Is syscons(4) support really far-far away You mean notebook keyboard/mousepad support ? (syscons is there today for USB keyboards). It's not that difficult, but it's been hard to find time to do it. And the situation won't improve in the next couple of months since I'm taking a break. So, unless it gets picked up by someone else, you'll have to wait 'til November at a minimum :-( later, Peter.