Re: 64 bit powerpc

Hi Peter,
I moved to Openbsd or I’m in the transition to move because Im still testing some hardware. I bought     some powermac to test.

64 bit:
Powermac11,2 dual core 2.0
Powermac8,2 Imac one core 2.0

In both case I have issues with ide disk , i tested with 6.2 , the driver is not working properly , a friend did a test reducing the velocity with jumper in a new ide disk and works, I need to do more research and documentation. With FreeBSD works fine but you do not have  binary at all, with Ubuntu works nice but I do not want Ubuntu :( .. 64 bit arch from my side need more research maybe someone can tell me their experience.
With 32 bit arch it works awesome !! I use a Mac mini 1.42ghz g4 as a desktop  with 6.3 , the unique problem is browser but I do not care about that for the moment , just only using it with classical apps to work as sysadmin and some devel. Also I tested in PowerBook g4 and same awesome result.
I’m want to say thanks to all people make all works to get working ppc in openbsd , I wish to help by some way :)

Rondan Rino

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 2:08 AM, Peter J. Philipp <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, This week I bought a used G5 PowerMac7,3 with 4 GB RAM and dual PowerPC 970FX cpu's.  I didn't buy it because I miss the macppc all that much but because I want to test the water of creating a 64 bit port that goes onward to perhaps support IBM POWER5+ CPU's.  It seems Linux and FreeBSD are already there or on their way. Since I'm a fan of OpenBSD I want an OpenBSD 64 bit Power(PC) port, and asking if anyone has experience to make this happen? What are hints that you can give?  Is it possible to just port over FreeBSD's low kernel routines and get OpenBSD/powerpc64 working that way? My use of OpenBSD/powerpc goes back to 2.9/3.0 days (when the macppc port came), I had some time then and created some manpages for Dale Rahn for the macppc system (which are probably in the attic by now).  I love working with kernel code but I largely don't know what I'm doing.  My programming experience is limited, I program a DNS authoritative server. At my last job I was an AIX sysadmin (in training) and worked on a POWER 7 machine running AIX 7.2.  I left that job though so I can't use that hardware to test a 64 bit port.  It left an impression on me though. Regards, -peter