FreeBSD 11 on PowerBook G4

[Tamiji Homma]

Hi Justin,

I’ve tried following FreeBSD 12 snapshots from ftp.freebsd.org

FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-powerpc-20161021-r307747-disc1.iso
FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-powerpc-20161031-r308137-disc1.iso

Both installed OK but both kernels didn’t boot.  After kernel started, screen went blank and nothing.

It is different from fatal kernel trap on FreeBSD 11-RELEASE.

Is your Oct 31st snap same as what I tried or something different, you built from the source code?

sha256:

01641184c3fc4d434cb475d754c62f2bc2f8b92ffefaf0ffba907bee904b8aa5  FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-powerpc-20161031-r308137-disc1.iso

Tammy

> On Nov 8, 2016, at 6:53 PM, Justin Hibbits <jhibbits at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 08 Nov 2016 18:34:09 -0800
> Tamiji Homma <tamiji at me.com> wrote:
> 
>> I’ve been running FreeBSD-ppc on PowerBook G4 1GHz/1GB DRAM since
>> 9.1-RC2. I upgraded to 10.2 some time back.  It works fine.
>> 
>> I gave it a try 11.0.  Installer worked flawlessly but installed
>> kernel crash during boot.
>> 
>> Since it reboots spontaneously, I couldn’t write it down.  I
>> video-captured screen and took a snapshot.
>> 
>> Here is screenshot fatal kernel trap.
>> http://www.pbase.com/tammyhomma/image/164488840/original 
>> 
>> Anyone seen this?
>> 
>> I also tried Nov. 6th 11-stable snapshot. Kernel crashes at the same
>> point.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> PS: I installed 10.3 for now and it works.
>> 
>> Tammy
> 
> Hi Tammy,
> 
> Unfortunately, you're in good company with that panic.  I've seen that
> since at least February on my PowerBook, but haven't made the time to
> track it down (11-CURRENT from mid-October 2015 worked fine).  On the
> bright side, though, 12-CURRENT as of October 31 works fine on my
> PowerBook.  I still don't have the time to bisect and track down the
> cause of the problem or the fix, but if you feel like bisecting and
> trying to find the snapshot that fixes the problem, that could help
> narrow down where it got fixed, and a fix could be backported to
> 11-STABLE.
> 
> - Justin