Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:54:41 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: refrence machine Message-ID: <20050722195441.GF9649@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <42DE5649.2010202@freebsd.org> References: <42CEF70A.2060605@freebsd.org> <20050712172040.GB46490@dragon.NUXI.org> <013401c58709$3172f500$1700a8c0@failure> <20050719145732.GA22045@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050720133521.GF34707@submonkey.net> <42DE5649.2010202@freebsd.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:48:57PM +1000, Peter Grehan wrote: > >>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. So it's lack of code rather than anything more sinister? Good. I had heard some complaints about a dodgy OpenFirmware implementation. > 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. I have a dual G5 PowerMac as of quite recently, and the second-to-most-recent SNAP booted as far as probing for KDB backends which was a pleasant surprise. ;) Ceri -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC4U8BocfcwTS3JF8RAotdAJ9uM5qgKlXushcp3zwRBsqrx2N6WwCgigx0 dDkTw9GcmxQJvQdXbMuRRLQ= =fsOX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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