ANNOUNCE: powerpc64 now in -CURRENT

[Andreas Tobler]

On 04.08.10 17:21, Henry Vogt wrote:
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> Hi,
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> trying to compile 9.0 on a 8.1-powerpc (xserve-G5) according to  ...
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> Upgrade instructions: (from
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2010-July/004367.html)
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> The safest way to move from a 32-bit to a 64-bit system is to reinstall
> the system from scratch. However, there are not yet install CDs (this

Btw, here are images:

http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/FreeBSD-9.0-20100715-SNAP-powerpc64/

> should be fixed soon), and some people may not wish to do this. So, for
> the adventurous:
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> cd /usr/src/sys/boot
> make
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> This step does not work for me:
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> otto# cd /usr/src/sys/boot
> otto# make
> "Makefile", line 29: Malformed conditional (${MK_FDT} != "no")
> "Makefile", line 31: if-less endif
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue

Is this with a -CURRENT source tree?

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> Any idea whats wrong here ?
> The rest of the instructions worked as outlined, but i cannot boot the
> 64bit kernel (it's not found) , but that's a different story..

Gruss,
Andreas