[Bug 235060] [boot] FreeBSD 12.0 Release DVD and CD will not boot on PowerMac G5 Quad

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--- Comment #28 from Mark Millard <marklmi26-fbsd at yahoo.com> ---
(In reply to Curtis Hamilton from comment #0)

The technical problem has been identified and
head -r347463 has a fix, listed as to be MFC'd
in a couple of weeks. See Justin's fix in:

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2019-May/124910.html

So far 2 people have reported to me that the change
has fixed the booting problems they were having on their
multi-socket or multi-core PowerMac G5s (970 family
of processors).

The change is in code only used for when there are
multiple 970 cpus involved (in FreeBSD terms for "cpu").


Technically, I think this bugzilla report will end up being
declared as a duplicate of:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233863

that is now "in progress" for the change. It also has
patches for issues found during exploring/investigating
what all was blocking various machines from booting in
various modes. I'm not so sure those other issues will
be handled as part of the resolution: it will probably
be viewed as a narrower, more specific report.

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