Re: Patches to allow usefdt mode that works on a 2 socket PowerMac3, 6 example too --and makes more work on 2-socket/1-core-each PowerMac11, 2

Dennis Clarke <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4/12/19 4:51 PM, Mark Millard wrote:
> On 2019-Apr-12, at 13:13, Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/12/19 3:19 PM, Mark Millard via freebsd-ppc wrote:
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>> Would you be so kind as to paste all this into :
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>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233863
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>> Really I would like to run some tests and follow up in the bug reports.
> 
> Okay I'll paste them in as attachments. But be warned:

Fair warning received loud and clear :-)

> 
> The 2 files do not deal with threads being stuck sleeping
> (and, so, the fans going) or other such. The stuck-sleeping
> problem happens for both multi-socket G5's and multi-socket
> G4's. (I do not have access to single-socket multi-core
> powerpc64 or powerpc machines to test.)

I have multiple G5 type boxen and will try them out. At least try
to.

> 
> So do not expect too much from these patches: They address
> some necessary issues but are not sufficient for everything.
>

Of course. No problem.


> These patches for the openfirmware->fdt translation are
> closer to being reasonable for FreeBSD official use
> than my highly context-specific stuck-sleeping patches for
> usefdt mode.
> 

Well to be frank we know this is for mac g5 hardware and thus having
them working at all in any fashion is better than the current situation.
Apple made a ton of them and they are dirt cheap and available as
opposed to the IBM Power situation which is expensive and just in
datacenters.


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

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