Re: Failed attempt to boot a (non-debug) head -r339076 on an old PowerMac G5 "Quad Core" (built via devel/powerpc64-gcc): Waking up CPU 1

Dennis Clarke <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 10/08/2018 03:04 PM, Mark Millard via freebsd-ppc wrote:
> On 2018-Oct-8, at 10:25 AM, Michael Tuexen <tuexen at fh-muenster.de> wrote:
> 
>>> On 8. Oct 2018, at 19:00, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> [kern.smp.disabled=1 is confirmed to enable booting
>>> my head -r339076 build on teh "Quad Core", much like
>>> the 11.2 reports for "2MHz dual-core".]
>> Does 11.2 run with smp enabled?
> 
> [My wording was poor: "reports" in "11.2 reports with
> smp enabled" was referring to reports by you and others
> on the lists, not screen messages from attempting a
> 11.2 boot.]
> 
> No clue at this point for the G5 "Quad Core". I have no
> 11.x context established, and have not since head
> went from 11 to 12, as I remember. Would trying to boot
> an installer/live for 11.2 be sufficient to test
> this?


I have tried over and over to install 11.2 on a G5 with dual PPC970
sockets wherein both are dual core. There is no quad core. Never was.
Anyways, the install simply doesn't work.

Dennis

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