Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 01:30:11 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Boot Loader: OFW network booting support Message-ID: <Y3Lro/8ae6FfE2WH@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfr3b2_1WnMtxrK%2B6Sm-Z3GE2ifGK5sGQWAiBhhPgkNAvA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfr3b2_1WnMtxrK%2B6Sm-Z3GE2ifGK5sGQWAiBhhPgkNAvA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 09:34:25AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > I'd like to drop support for OFW network booting. > > These days, the only OpenFirmware machines are really old Mac G4 and G5 > machines. Nothing else can use it (it used to be shared with sparc64 > machines). Which are still in use. Particularly, Mac mini G4 and Power Mac G5 make good backup/storage boxes and just nice piece of hardware to have around. > So, rather than do a lot of work I can barely test (I might have an old G4 > mac in my dad's old thing), I'm thinking about dropping the support, > especially since I don't think it's been used by anybody in a long time. Netbooting had always been preferred over to flashing optical media due to how easy it is to setup. This is the first option recommended by grehan@ in his guide* and that's how I installed FreeBSD on all my G4/G5 machines. My votes goes to keep it. ./danfe *) https://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/install.html
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