Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 23:10:02 -0500 From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how many users of FreeBSD 12 do we have on powerpc? Message-ID: <98a48c56-f350-9858-7924-4405197fcaf0@blastwave.org> In-Reply-To: <72c3d9eb-12c1-4a3c-9a0a-6646e3a755fd@www.fastmail.com> References: <20210210223920.GA31353@lonesome.com> <d872ddc8-5366-4e8d-dd8f-5a9c872cbfad@neo-zeon.de> <CAOpTx7GkFh6v4i334g3nTHK3XXkDn6Z_5SYYYoj%2BZn4zo0Qj3Q@mail.gmail.com> <MWHPR17MB1021E4012D07A3EDF9B90128C18B9@MWHPR17MB1021.namprd17.prod.outlook.com> <72c3d9eb-12c1-4a3c-9a0a-6646e3a755fd@www.fastmail.com>
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On 2/12/21 9:03 AM, Brandon Bergren wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2021, at 12:39 AM, Damon Zwolinski wrote: >> I have three G5s that are still on 10. I use CDs/DVDs to install and I >> don't think I could get 12 to work that way. I'll try 13 this weekend. >> >> - d > > Make sure and do it with -BETA2 when it's out instead of using an earlier version -- there was a bug introduced in December that was only recently fixed that broke boot on G5, and -BETA2 will be the first version to contain the fix. > > The images should hopefully be available sometime today. > I am about to jump on this. Thank you. Do we still need to do some fiddling at boot with kern.smp.disabled=1 and/or set usefdt=1 ? I seem to recall something odd about the old PowerMac G5 units not allowing multiple processor cores. Regardless I will get that test going now. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional
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