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On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:05:43 -0600
Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> mentioned:

> I have been working on a full 64-bit PowerPC port of FreeBSD which is 
> now mature enough that wider exposure and testing would be appreciated. 
> It boots multiuser and most ports seem to just work, etc. Note that this 
> is still very raw, however; building it remains tricky, and it may have 
> fatal bugs resulting in data loss.
> 
> Caveats:
> - Memory above 2 GB is not really supported yet, due to lack of IOMMU 
> support or bounce buffers.
> - snd_ai2s causes panics on 64-bit kernels

Actually it panics on my G4 as well, so I think it is not ppc64 related.
I'm now looking into it.

Congratulations for the good work!

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Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE