Re[6]: FreeBSD on Xserve?

2004-09-12 Thread Igor Shmukler
That's true indeed. Below is a quote from http://www-306.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/AB70A3470F9CC0E287256ECC006D6A54/$file/970-software.pdf The implementation of memory management in the 64-bit PowerPC processors is significantly different from the 32-bit PowerPC implementations

Re: Preliminary fdc patches

2004-09-12 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Can people test these? I seem to have only good, well behaved fdc : devices :-) These patches should be considered experimental. I've : tried them on one machine only. Hmmm. Last minute changes suck. Th

Preliminary fdc patches

2004-09-12 Thread M. Warner Losh
Can people test these? I seem to have only good, well behaved fdc devices :-) These patches should be considered experimental. I've tried them on one machine only. Warner Index: fdc.c === RCS file: /cache/ncvs/src/sys/dev/fdc/fdc.c

Re[2]: FreeBSD on Xserve?

2004-09-12 Thread Igor Shmukler
> > If original author wants to mature OS with MAC and SMP support SELinux > > might be a good candidate. > > However, Linux does not have jails. Only other OS that has them is > > Solaris 10 which does not run on PPC. > > There's something named User Mode Linux which seems to be a little like > j

Re[4]: FreeBSD on Xserve?

2004-09-12 Thread Igor Shmukler
> > Why do you think that 970 does not have BAT registers? > > There are 16 special purpose registers specifically to implement Block > > Address Translation. > > > > Because Peter already told us that they have no BAT registers: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2004-February/0003

Re: FreeBSD on Xserve?

2004-09-12 Thread Morten Liebach
On 2004-09-12 20:59:07 +0400, Igor Shmukler wrote: > If original author wants to mature OS with MAC and SMP support SELinux > might be a good candidate. > However, Linux does not have jails. Only other OS that has them is > Solaris 10 which does not run on PPC. There's something named User Mode L

Re[2]: FreeBSD on Xserve?

2004-09-12 Thread Igor Shmukler
Why do you think that 970 does not have BAT registers? There are 16 special purpose registers specifically to implement Block Address Translation. I don't know what's a story with fan-drivers. Personally, I was under impression that G5 has liquid cooling system. Not that should be a major show s