Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 20:06:59 -0800 From: Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com> To: Britton Dodd <brittman914@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation of 9.2 or 10.0-RC2 to Powerbook G4 1.67 Message-ID: <20140111200659.75611a16@zhabar.gateway.2wire.net> In-Reply-To: <E9737BE4-5BA3-4FEF-8F3D-9CD46D28FB42@gmail.com> References: <CAMtLt3tOYceGHv26QOWSTKJStoecxtQjf4KVehx01PEdfGnyrg@mail.gmail.com> <CAHSQbTDfrQ09t4vhqYrjOW7h97EDddEcPVuRfqpiGKJ5aNhdsQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAMtLt3sgNAKHh3f-CN66jAj8xTicn=_ohAg5nioqRDHuPR3f=Q@mail.gmail.com> <52C76745.9050706@freebsd.org> <E9737BE4-5BA3-4FEF-8F3D-9CD46D28FB42@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 4 Jan 2014 11:45:38 -0500 Britton Dodd <brittman914@gmail.com> wrote: > Guess I shouldn’t buy a lottery ticket then ! > > > > Thanks for all the help. I’ll start building my Xserve then in the > mean time. > > > On Jan 3, 2014, at 8:43 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> > wrote: > > > You've unfortunately found the one New World machine that has never > > worked properly under FreeBSD! So 8.x won't help. Probably you will > > just have to wait for the time being. Your other hardware should > > work perfectly well, however. > > -Nathan > > > > On 01/03/14 18:56, Britt Dodd wrote: > >> Excellent! If *anybody* needs ppc32/ppc64 testing or shell access > >> for compiling, please message me. > >> > >> Thanks Justin for your reply. Is this error present in 8.x > >> releases? Do you think I could run 8.x until the patch comes out, > >> and then somehow upgrade to 10.0-RC2+? > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Justin Hibbits > >> <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu>wrote: > >> > >>> Hi Britt, > >>> > >>> On Jan 3, 2014 12:21 PM, "Britt Dodd" <brittman914@gmail.com> > >>> wrote: > >>>> Good afternoon, > >>>> > >>>> I'd like to begin by saying that while I do have a bunch of x86 > >>>> systems, I'd also like to make (limited) use of powerpc hardware > >>>> -- mainly a Powerbook G4, an XServe G5 and a XServe G4 (it'll be > >>>> the 'garage mac'). > >>>> > >>>> OSX support died with 10.5. A bunch of Linux distros totally > >>>> dropped building for ppc/32. I'm starting to really get attached > >>>> to running > >>> FreeBSD > >>>> and would like to install it on my powerpc equipment. > >>>> > >>>> I attempted to load the LiveCD in my powerbook, and maybe 2 > >>>> seconds into bootup (with tty output on screen) the entire > >>>> system abruptly shuts off. > >>>> > >>>> Any hints? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Britt > >>> I see this very issue, and I think it is caused by the PMU being > >>> initialized early, and not emptying the mailbox. I will be > >>> testing a patch in the next few weeks when I get time to tackle > >>> this, and hopefully a fix will be in soon. > >>> > >>> -Justin I just tested a workaround. Enter the following at the loader: set hint.pmu.0.disabled="1" And add that to /boot/device.hints, and it will boot. You won't have any PMU functionality, it'll be disabled. So no battery reporting and other niceties, but it'll boot, and run smoothly (there's no ADB in that machine). - Justin
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