FYI: head (12-CURRENT) -r308247 still does not boot old iMac G3

[Mark Millard]

My old iMac G3 list report from 2015-Mar-30 ( https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2015-March/007563.html ) for head (11-CURRENT) -r280598 still basically applies to head (12-CURRENT) -r308247 :

> iMac G3 (I've access to only one example G3): 
> 
> After 
> 
> > Time counters tick every 1.000 msec 
> 
> it gets: 
> 
> > [Thread pid 0 tid 100037] 
> > Stopped at pmap_activate+0x7c lwz r11,r1,0x0 
> 
> which may be reporting the instruction after a indirect subroutine jump. 
 
Although the tid is now 100040 if I remember right. If I remember right, the 0x7c has not changed, nor has the type of instruction listed.

The SSD boots various other PowerMac G4's and G5's just fine.

Back on 2015-Mar-30 I reported that 10.1-STABLE of that time worked fine. (I was not explicit about the -r.)


[Unlike back then there is no problem with -r308247 booting the PowerMac G5's.]


[The oddball PowerMac G4 that no version of FreeBSD that I've tried has ever managed to boot still has the status as of -r308247: it gets to the same point and silently hangs. Mac OS X and Lubuntu and the like boot it just fine.]


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Mark Millard
markmi at dsl-only.net