Recommendation for a Big Endian System for NIC Driver Development

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Thu Feb 7 14:03:30 PST 2008


David Christensen wrote:
>>> I want to do some wider testing on non-Intel based systems with
>>> current and new Broadcom drivers.  Feel free to email me directly
>>> if you have a suggestion.
>> look at getting a PG powerPC off ebay..
>>
>> (I can help you set it up if you wish..
>> I just did a dozen of them for work).
>>
>> I like that option because then you can help debug why
>> this ppc system can't run reliably with this
>> broadcom phy on the gem driver :-)
> 
> Do you have a specific make and model number you can suggest?
> 
> Dave
> 
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something like:

  http://support.apple.com/specs/powermac/Power_Mac_G5_Late_2005.html

but I think G5 support is of an unknown quality right now.
we need it for work so it will happen.. just I don't know
what the current state is right now as I don't have one.



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