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Subject: Re: svn commit: r306065 - in head/sys vs. PowerMacs: Nathan's trail
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On 9/21/2016 1:15 PM, Jukka A. Ukkonen wrote:
> Anyhow the old code will not boot on a G5 without a change, neither
> will it boot with Nathan's patch included. Releasing 11.0-stable in
> a state that will not actually boot on one of the supported platforms
> will not look awfully bright either. I guess this is an issue for
> the re team to decide.

The 11 as it stands does not boot on my PowerMac G5.  It hangs before it 
starts printing the booting output. The only exception is that when I 
enable DDB, it prints two lines about DDB and then hangs.

It does boot under Qemu though.  I don't know what is going on.

-Krzysztof