Re: how many users of FreeBSD 12 do we have on powerpc?
Dennis Clarke via freebsd-ppc <[email protected]>
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On 2/12/21 9:03 AM, Brandon Bergren wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2021, at 12:39 AM, Damon Zwolinski wrote: >> I have three G5s that are still on 10. I use CDs/DVDs to install and I >> don't think I could get 12 to work that way. I'll try 13 this weekend. >> >> - d > > Make sure and do it with -BETA2 when it's out instead of using an earlier version -- there was a bug introduced in December that was only recently fixed that broke boot on G5, and -BETA2 will be the first version to contain the fix. > > The images should hopefully be available sometime today. > I am about to jump on this. Thank you. Do we still need to do some fiddling at boot with kern.smp.disabled=1 and/or set usefdt=1 ? I seem to recall something odd about the old PowerMac G5 units not allowing multiple processor cores. Regardless I will get that test going now. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"