Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:25:53 -0400 From: Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: powerpc64 now in -CURRENT Message-ID: <4E985BF6-1B3C-4AB6-AC97-EB86AA3873E4@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <B39EFC30-F914-48BF-8FEA-CCA49B2FB93E@freebsd.org> References: <20100713164320.40351367@anacreon.physics.wisc.edu> <B39EFC30-F914-48BF-8FEA-CCA49B2FB93E@freebsd.org>
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On Jul 14, 2010, at 9:17 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > > On Jul 13, 2010, at 4:43 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > >> As of r210025, 64-bit PowerPC support is now present in -CURRENT. >> Thanks to all who tested this branch and gave feedback, in particular >> Patrick Kerharo and Andreas Tobler for consultation and endless >> testing, and to Peter Grehan for prodding me into doing this. >> >> Supported hardware: >> - CPUs: PowerPC 970, Cell, POWER4, POWER5, POWER6, POWER7 >> - Machines: Apple Power Macintosh G5, Apple iMac G5, IBM Cell >> Simulator, Sony Playstation 3 (coming soon) >> >> Upgrade instructions: >> >> The safest way to move from a 32-bit to a 64-bit system is to >> reinstall >> the system from scratch. However, there are not yet install CDs (this >> should be fixed soon), and some people may not wish to do this. So, >> for >> the adventurous: > > Anyone interested can now download hot off the presses CDs from > http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/FreeBSD-9.0-20100715-SNAP-powerpc64 > -Nathan This is awesome. Downloading the livefs now to test on my G5. - Justin
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