From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 11 12:25:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3200916A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:25:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from gir.theapt.org (deimos.theapt.org [208.201.244.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C79743D31 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:25:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@theapt.org) Received: by gir.theapt.org (Postfix, from userid 0) id 55C8237003; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:25:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:25:18 -0800 From: Peter Hessler To: Barry Hawkins Message-ID: <20031211202518.GA3140@gir.theapt.org> References: <46789A62-2C14-11D8-890E-000A95A0485E@allthingscomputed.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46789A62-2C14-11D8-890E-000A95A0485E@allthingscomputed.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: FreeBSD PowerPC Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an nVidia-based PowerBook G4 17" 1GHz X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:25:23 -0000 On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:57:40PM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote: : :The Problem Issues with a 1GHz 17" PowerBook G4 :-The 100MHz bus :-The 1MB L3 cache :-The nVidia GeForce Go 440 card The XFree86 driver in 4.4 should be quite improved over the 4.3 one. (4.4 is "scheduled" to be released New Years Eve, 2003) :-The Airport Extreme wireless card (Broadcom chipset) I don't think you'll be seeing a driver for this soon. Broadcom isn't releasing any documentation for this driver, and I'm not sure if the will write binary-only drivers for */PPC. (I hope for full documentation, but I'll be realistic, and not expect it :( ) :-The USB software modem : Similar issue to the Airport Extreme. No docs for it, and it is unlikely a binary driver for */PPC will be relased. If anyone is able to get documentation for the Airport Extreme, the USB soft-modem, or the on board sound, please post to this list. I know people in the OpenBSD project who are working on drivers for these, but w/o docs, it is slow going.