Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 09:11:37 -0400 From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD current on ppc64 and RISC-V rv64imafdc Message-ID: <00976181-2591-ba21-8ddb-f1cce954e455@blastwave.org> In-Reply-To: <eddb9602-8f6f-e240-da10-61d1c0c1459f@gmail.com> References: <8352f841-0522-9f45-148d-d2948e97857e@gmail.com> <20190713152404.GJ1503@dendrobates> <b6876ce7-5147-5f1a-d712-3515e124cd36@gmail.com> <6b3dcec02b425a8559605b4e6c5ada19ee642728.camel@freebsd.org> <20190713194256.GK1503@dendrobates> <85e35455-793a-84fe-c8cf-39b89ade7c11@gmail.com> <26864b34-624a-075f-4a10-859314649d2f@blastwave.org> <20190714172816.GA26897@lonesome.com> <3e91570f-69b4-1d29-ada9-bd13d42e236a@blastwave.org> <20190716003844.GB19462@lonesome.com> <cc52126e-7263-7ab2-5f46-969271c44734@blastwave.org> <eddb9602-8f6f-e240-da10-61d1c0c1459f@gmail.com>
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On 7/16/19 9:06 AM, Jason Bacon wrote:
> On 2019-07-15 21:38, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> It is best to stick in the Power8 land and upwards. Those of us still
>> messing with the old PowerMac G5 with its IBM 970MP processors are going
>> to be around for a long time yet. Given that FreeBSD runs there.
> I'll continue to do port testing and fixes and as long as my PowerMac is
> reasonably stable.
>
> I don't foresee having access to a power8 or better any time soon,
> though. I don't have a vested interest in powerpc, but I picked up an
> old Mac so I could contribute a little, just because it's a cool project.
>
Thank you so much. These PowerMac boxen are cheap and available and
provide a fine little risc ppc64 unit to people. While the Power9 is
awesome it also requires a vast pile of money.
So anything that allows just about anyone anywhere to install and run
FreeBSD on a ppc64 boxen dirt cheap is a "cool" project in my mind.
We need to get over a small panic problem :
r350026 will panic on ppc64 PowerMac G5 in vm_phys_enqueue_contig
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239245
So that will be fun to sort out.
--
Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
GreyBeard and suspenders optional
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