Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 15:37:43 -0400 From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Failed attempt to boot a (non-debug) head -r339076 on an old PowerMac G5 "Quad Core" (built via devel/powerpc64-gcc): Waking up CPU 1 Message-ID: <037e3dd6-cc0c-a39f-f074-bce01887156c@blastwave.org> In-Reply-To: <3DCB6910-6F08-408A-B3D1-70A7EB5A55BC@yahoo.com> References: <0E6DB192-37A3-45EC-87E9-C5AA1C9397AE@yahoo.com> <785D268A-2612-459F-BD1F-A650D9ECCA28@fh-muenster.de> <A62CE721-B12A-4A79-BC43-F4E0F412D695@yahoo.com> <A7E94F86-E160-4E58-8C44-99DE109D2758@fh-muenster.de> <3DCB6910-6F08-408A-B3D1-70A7EB5A55BC@yahoo.com>
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On 10/08/2018 03:04 PM, Mark Millard via freebsd-ppc wrote: > On 2018-Oct-8, at 10:25 AM, Michael Tuexen <tuexen at fh-muenster.de> wrote: > >>> On 8. Oct 2018, at 19:00, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>> [kern.smp.disabled=1 is confirmed to enable booting >>> my head -r339076 build on teh "Quad Core", much like >>> the 11.2 reports for "2MHz dual-core".] >> Does 11.2 run with smp enabled? > > [My wording was poor: "reports" in "11.2 reports with > smp enabled" was referring to reports by you and others > on the lists, not screen messages from attempting a > 11.2 boot.] > > No clue at this point for the G5 "Quad Core". I have no > 11.x context established, and have not since head > went from 11 to 12, as I remember. Would trying to boot > an installer/live for 11.2 be sufficient to test > this? I have tried over and over to install 11.2 on a G5 with dual PPC970 sockets wherein both are dual core. There is no quad core. Never was. Anyways, the install simply doesn't work. Dennis
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