Request for review/testing: G5 support
Nathan Whitehorn
nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Wed Mar 25 18:22:13 PDT 2009
I'd like to merge the G5 support currently in Perforce soon, to ensure
some testing with it before the 8.0 code freeze. There are a few
remaining bugs/issues listed below, but I think fixing them will be
faster and easier once this is in the tree, and they are not serious
issues in general. A diff against -CURRENT can be found at
http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/ppcg5.diff. If there is sufficient
interest, I can make a CD image with the patch applied.
Notes:
- For SMU-based systems (later model Powermac G5s, and all G5 iMacs),
there is currently no support for controlling the fans. Your machine
will be loud.
- Adjusting the volume of the built-in audio on my G5 iMac does not work
-- it is stuck at maximum
- PCI Express systems likely do not work.
- SMP is currently tested only on an emulator, where it works fine --
I'd appreciate any test reports
- Serial consoles seem to be broken at the moment
- If you set CPUTYPE=970 in make.conf, be *absolutely sure* to add
-mno-powerpc64 to CFLAGS, or you will get strange runtime errors.
Everything else (built-in devices, X, etc.) should work. Please let me
know how it goes if you try the patch!
-Nathan
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