Re: Issues with PowerMac g5 970MP

Cool!!

I will try it in PB g4, and news about freebsd 11, it is a tier 2 arch so pkg is not working only use ports and drink a lot of coffee !!!




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On March 3, 2018 11:55 PM, Herminio Hernandez Jr. <[email protected]> wrote:

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> 
> I am running OpenBSD on a PB G4. It runs pretty well.
> 
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> > On Mar 3, 2018, at 6:40 PM, Rino Rondan [email protected] wrote:
> > 
> > Hi!!
> > 
> > I tested also with ubuntu ppc64 and works very fine, also Freebsd 11.1 (currently testing now )
> > 
> > With ubuntu 16 I have problem with Nvidia driver I can not start correctly, only frame buffer but with Ubuntu and Freebsd I did not have any error with Disk and memory is ok. I will test Fedora later ..
> > 
> > Do you know if openbsd works fine in powerbook g4 1.67ghz and Mac mini 1.2ghz models also Apple Airport Extreme A1408 5th /6th Gen , I do not know if it a good choice use those kind of router I do not know about those old model.
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> > > On March 2, 2018 2:52 PM, Christoph R. Murauer [email protected] wrote:
> > > 
> > > Yep saw it. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ppc&m=151311724932380&w=2
> > > 
> > > real mem = 3221225472 (3072MB)
> > > 
> > > avail mem = 2021347328 (1927MB)
> > > 
> > > I have the machine not here.
> > > 
> > > > Yeah i know about it running in 32bit-mode, but even then it should be
> > > > 
> > > > able
> > > > 
> > > > to use more than 1,6G right?
> > > > 
> > > > I have an iBook G4 that has a max RAM of 1,5G on hardware-basis which
> > > > 
> > > > makes
> > > > 
> > > > sense and all, but on a G5?!
> > > > 
> > > > Also, did you see his dmesg? :)
> > > > 
> > > > \[...\]
> > > > 
> > > > hw.product=PowerMac11,2
> > > > 
> > > > hw.physmem=2684354560
> > > > 
> > > > hw.usermem=2684342272
> > > > 
> > > > hw.ncpufound=2
> > > > 
> > > > \[...\]
> > > > 
> > > > 2018-03-02 18:37 GMT+01:00 Christoph R. Murauer [email protected]:
> > > > 
> > > > > Hello !
> > > > > 
> > > > > > I also can't use more than 1,6G of RAM, although there's more in
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > the
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > machine.
> > > > > 
> > > > > That is normal (I have here 2 DP G5s) because OpenBSD runs only in
> > > > > 
> > > > > 32
> > > > > 
> > > > > bit mode (even the G5 is a 64 bit CPU). See
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://www.openbsd.org/macppc.html section History. The max RAM in
> > > > > 
> > > > > the G4 (G3 less) was 2 GB see
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/specs/powermac_g4_450.html
> > > > > 
> > > > > as example.