Re: FreeBSD on powerPc

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adrian Chadd" <[email protected]>
> To: "St=C3=A9fane Paris" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Mark Linimon" <[email protected]>, "Timothy Turner" <tlturner77@g=
mail.com>, "freebsd-ppc"
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2026 1:52:56 PM
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on powerPc

> On Tue, 23 Jun 2026 at 00:17, St=C3=A9fane Paris <[email protected]> wro=
te:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I dont understand why I recieve your emails, yet.
>>
>> Few years ago, I questioned the freebsd-ppc community to install Xwindow
>> properly on a FreeBSD powerPC.
>>
>> I've never received answers. Thus, I unsubscribed the freebsd-ppc mailin=
g
>> list... but it doesn't work, I'm in yet.
>>
>> Could you either answer me or unsubscribe me ?
>=20
>=20
> hi!
>=20
> So it's on our list, it used to work in the deep past but with the
> evolution of DRM and drivers not being tested
> on ppc64le or ppc64 it's been a bit of a broken crapshoot to figure out.
>=20
> I did try buying an amd/radeon GPU for my P9 box but it didn't work; I
> need to see if it's the GPU being broken
> or actually just not working on the P9. I'll save up some pennies to
> buy something more recent that amdgpu
> will work with and try that.

Did you try BE or LE?  None of the recent AMD cards will work in BE as the =
hardware assumes the host is LE, and as I understand it since it's all DMA =
related this really can't be fixed.