Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:48:57 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: refrence machine Message-ID: <42DE5649.2010202@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050720133521.GF34707@submonkey.net> References: <42CEF70A.2060605@freebsd.org> <20050712172040.GB46490@dragon.NUXI.org> <013401c58709$3172f500$1700a8c0@failure> <20050719145732.GA22045@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050720133521.GF34707@submonkey.net>
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>>I've been looking for a G4 Xserve on eBay -- but all I can find now are >>G5 models. :-( > > That's something I was wondering about but couldn't see in a year's > worth of archives; how SOL are we for FreeBSD on a G5 and what are the > barriers? The G5 is a true 64-bit CPU with a 64-bit MMU. 32-bit user-mode code can run unchanged, but the kernel has to deal with the 64-bit MMU and various other bits and pieces that are painful to implement. I have a 1.6G uniprocessor G5, and have mucked around with it a bit - the loader works, for instance - but it might be a while before things start happening. later, Peter.
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