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> Building was a miserable failure. It went through and did the world
> and then the kernel failed first because driver "zs" wasn't found (we
> commented out zs and put the 16550 uart in instead) and then it churned
> and puked on linking;

  The sio driver doesn't work on FreeBSD/ppc. It requires an attachment 
to a bus somewhere (there's no ISA bus attachment). I do have it sort-of 
working with the psim simulator (with an 'iobus' attachment), but 
you've just hit the fact that porting to a new platform with different 
hardware than Macs doesn't come for free - there's always going to be 
some development required.

later,

Peter.