Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 08:17:45 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: peter@larkowski.net Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting a 2nd rev 12" powerbook (1Ghz) Message-ID: <40201E09.1070204@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0402031054170.13721-100000@decstation.larkowski.net> References: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0402031054170.13721-100000@decstation.larkowski.net>
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Hi Peter, > I thought I was seeing the same behavior when netbooting. It does seem > more likely to work with -v, but I have seen it not work with -v and once > it did work without -v, so now I'm not so sure what's going on. It seems > strange that there is a gem driver problem and a cdrom driver problem > simultaneously that are giving Frank and I the same issue for running > init. If packets are on the wire, then I'd say the GEM driver is OK and it is another problem. > On a semi related note, what's the status of the hard drive's ide > controller? Is it being worked on? How different is it from other > supported controllers on previous powerbooks/ibooks? Is it a lack of > hardware thing or just a newness of hardware thing? Just wondering. Lack of hardware. It seems to be a shift of the macio ATA controller to PCI, so it's not a standard PCI-ATA device. I'm not working on it, but would be happy to guide anyone who wanted to have a crack at it. > On a somewhat less related note, my sparc kernels are booting again after > another cvsup, so I have a -current cross build machine now. Has anyone > tested cross-building powerpc from FreeBSD/sparc64? I know with NetBSD > there are (or were at least) certain random combinations of arches that > didn't work real well for cross building. I've only done i386->ppc cross builds, but I don't think there would be any problems with a sparc64->ppc build. later, Peter.
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