From owner-freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Mon Oct 8 19:38:24 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F16A510C9757 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2018 19:38:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) Received: from atl4mhfb04.myregisteredsite.com (atl4mhfb04.myregisteredsite.com [209.17.115.120]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8518979DFA for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2018 19:38:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) Received: from atl4mhob12.registeredsite.com (atl4mhob12.registeredsite.com [209.17.115.50]) by atl4mhfb04.myregisteredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id w98JbwDX016027 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2018 15:37:59 -0400 Received: from mailpod.hostingplatform.com (atl4qobmail01pod2.registeredsite.com [10.30.77.35]) by atl4mhob12.registeredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id w98Jbo21010678 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2018 15:37:50 -0400 Received: (qmail 45973 invoked by uid 0); 8 Oct 2018 19:37:50 -0000 X-TCPREMOTEIP: 174.118.245.214 X-Authenticated-UID: dclarke@blastwave.org Received: from unknown (HELO ?172.16.35.3?) (dclarke@blastwave.org@174.118.245.214) by 0 with ESMTPA; 8 Oct 2018 19:37:49 -0000 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 To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org References: <0E6DB192-37A3-45EC-87E9-C5AA1C9397AE@yahoo.com> <785D268A-2612-459F-BD1F-A650D9ECCA28@fh-muenster.de> <3DCB6910-6F08-408A-B3D1-70A7EB5A55BC@yahoo.com> From: Dennis Clarke Message-ID: <037e3dd6-cc0c-a39f-f074-bce01887156c@blastwave.org> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 15:37:43 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3DCB6910-6F08-408A-B3D1-70A7EB5A55BC@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 19:38:24 -0000 On 10/08/2018 03:04 PM, Mark Millard via freebsd-ppc wrote: > On 2018-Oct-8, at 10:25 AM, Michael Tuexen wrote: > >>> On 8. Oct 2018, at 19:00, Mark Millard 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