G5 Bridge-mode MMU

Nathan Whitehorn nathanw at uchicago.edu
Wed Apr 23 21:38:46 UTC 2008


Peter Grehan wrote:
>> I just wanted to let everyone know that I just saw the FreeBSD 
>> copyright notice go by on my iMac G5 (it stills hangs right after the 
>> WITNESS warning). Apparently I'm on PPC kernel #160 at the moment...
>
>  Excellent work Nathan :)
>
>  Are you using syscons for console output ?
Yeah. Open Firmware seems to work fine with the existing way of dealing 
with it, and once the page tables are set up, there is no need to bother 
with real mode and the resulting broken console output any more. I'll 
provide a first round of patches fairly soon.
-Nathan


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