FreeBSD current on ppc64 and RISC-V rv64imafdc

[Dennis Clarke]

On 7/16/19 9:06 AM, Jason Bacon wrote:
> On 2019-07-15 21:38, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> It is best to stick in the Power8 land and upwards.  Those of us still
>> messing with the old PowerMac G5 with its IBM 970MP processors are going
>> to be around for a long time yet. Given that FreeBSD runs there.
> I'll continue to do port testing and fixes and as long as my PowerMac is 
> reasonably stable.
> 
> I don't foresee having access to a power8 or better any time soon, 
> though.  I don't have a vested interest in powerpc, but I picked up an 
> old Mac so I could contribute a little, just because it's a cool project.
> 


Thank you so much. These PowerMac boxen are cheap and available and
provide a fine little risc ppc64 unit to people.  While the Power9 is
awesome it also requires a vast pile of money.

So anything that allows just about anyone anywhere to install and run
FreeBSD on a ppc64 boxen dirt cheap is a "cool" project in my mind.

We need to get over a small panic problem :

     r350026 will panic on ppc64 PowerMac G5 in vm_phys_enqueue_contig
     https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239245

So that will be fun to sort out.

-- 
Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
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