FreeBSD on Xserve ?

[David Leimbach]

I don't think we have G5 support yet.  G5's are significantly different 
from G4s in a few ways that really matter to operating systems.  
Missing BAT registers and other "fun stuff" like fan-drivers have meant 
that even platforms that support 64bit PPC don't necessarily support G5 
[like the L4 microkernels I've been playing with]

Dave
On Sep 12, 2004, at 2:30 AM, jade at oxymail.org wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm planning on buying an Apple Xserve G5 bi-processor. I know mac os 
> X (server)
> is running on it and that's a modified version of freebsd.
> So here are my questions :
>
> - I've been using freebsd for a while now and if I buy the Xserve I'd 
> very much
> like to replace mac os X by a freebsd 5.2 / 5.3 if this is possible. My
> motivations are that I want to make intensive use of Jails and 
> Mandatory Access
> Control (MAC). I'd also like to recompile the whole thing with stack 
> protection
> (if possible).
>
> Yet I have no idea if Mac os X can run jails, and MAC (anyone an idea 
> here ?),
> but if not, I'd switch to Freebie.
>
> So in general :
> - has anyone experienced the change
> - would it be difficult to replace OS X by FreeBSD ?
> - would it be possible to run these options (Jails,MAC,stack 
> protection) on this
> hardware ?
>
> Thanks for the hints, because I'm a little lost.
>
> By,
> Jade.
>
>
>
>
>
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