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 <p...@centroid.eu> 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
