PowerMac G5 and FreeBSD 9.0-current: no disks?

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 01/24/11 15:57, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> Another question: shouldn't the 'nvram' command work?
> root at kg-g5# nvram -p
> nvram: /dev/powermac_nvram: No such file or directory
> root at kg-g5# kldstat
> Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>   1    1 0x100000 a29b1c   kernel
> root at kg-g5# kldload powermac_nvram
> kldload: can't load powermac_nvram: File exists
> root at kg-g5# nvram -p
> nvram: /dev/powermac_nvram: No such file or directory
>
> dmidecode isn't for powerpc arch, is therer something else like that
> for powerpc?
>
> Oh, and in case anyone wonders:
> root at kg-g5# uname -a
> FreeBSD kg-g5.kg4.no 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #119 r217462M: Sat
> Jan 15 16:05:38 CST 2011
> root at comporellon.tachypleus.net:/usr/obj/powerpc.powerpc/usr/src/sys/GENERIC powerpc

You nvram chip appears to be unsupported. You can use ofwdump to get 
something kind of like dmidecode. In answer to your earlier question, 
SMP isn't in GENERIC on powerpc, so you'll need to build a new kernel 
with that option to get both CPUs online.
-Nathan