Re: revision 341104 quite unusable
Dennis Clarke <[email protected]>
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On 11/29/18 2:32 AM, Mark Millard wrote: > > > On 2018-Nov-28, at 14:50, Dennis Clarke <dclarke st blastwave.org> wrote: > >> . . . >> Not a problem. As Paul Mather was very cool to point out this old ppc64 >> PowerMac G5 is a tier 2 type platform with tier whenever type real world >> expectations. I think a Power9 server is really needed but one step at >> a time here. > > powerpc families are all tier 2, including Power9. > For now at least ;-) >> . . . >> OKay well, as I was saying at lung exhaustive length, I have yet to see >> anything build and boot other than the RC2 dvd. At least in a natural >> way. > > > And you started from a context that was observed to be a problem > before you even had started (as far as I can tell). If you want > things to be more likely to work directly, you would back up to > source vintages from before the problem was observed initially for > hardware contexts similar to yours. > > You could always tackle the later issues later. I have been working directly from the RC2 install which does boot and run with a single cpu core. Then dragging in the src and doing a build seems to make sense but to skip over all that fuss I can drag down bits from https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/head/r341253/powerpc/powerpc64/ and see what happens. Dennis _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"