> From: Daniel Pocock
> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 18:12:51 +0200
>
> Hi,
>
> I downloaded this file:
>
> https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/powerpc64/install68.iso
>
> sha256sum install68.iso
> ecfcaf79833358c94ecf8f7390346c8d4f167169f7eb987417a6b532bf1e12e7
>
> and tried to boot a Tal
> From: Daniel Pocock
> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 18:32:20 +0200
Hi Daniel,
>
> On 04/09/2020 18:22, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>
> >
> > Hmm, I think that means that you have too much memory in your machine ;).
>
> but I only used half the slots
Don't fill th
> From: Daniel Pocock
> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 14:37:13 +0200
>
> On 05/09/2020 13:26, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> >> From: Daniel Pocock
> >> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 18:32:20 +0200
> >
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> >>
> >> On 04/09/2020 18:22
> From: Daniel Pocock
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 20:18:57 +0200
>
> I had another go at this today
>
> I used the latest snapshot, 6 September:
>
> sha256sum install68.iso
> aa7b5270506dcccd80045dae22fb8a6aeb4c892d71f74c6e27175d30295f9b17
>
> I removed the LSI HBA and I put a blank SSD into a Sh
> From: Karel Gardas
> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 16:59:41 +0200
>
> Hello,
>
> first of all, many thanks to Mark Kettenis & other developers for brand
> new powerpc64 port. I've noticed it is developed on P9 machines, but Mr.
> Kettenis also provided some
> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 17:24:51 +0100
> From: "Peter J. Philipp"
>
> Hi,
>
> Now that POWER9 systems are pretty well supported, I'm setting away
> some time next year to backport powerpc64 to the Mac G5. Is there
> anyone already doing that? I already tried this once (based on the
> macppc s
> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 10:27:24 +0100
> From: "Peter J. Philipp"
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 08:58:36AM +0100, Peter J. Philipp wrote:
> > I guess I can do this though if you think it's the better way it's
> > the better way, the bootloader that came with macppc I had
> > converted to load 64-b
> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 11:50:42 +0100
> From: "Peter J. Philipp"
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 11:31:46AM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > > It could make dual-booting easier on a G5 while adding a (half) stage to
> > > macppc64 (and perhaps eventually mac
> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 14:12:07 +0100
> From: "Peter J. Philipp"
>
> Hi list,
>
> Last year I set out for a year to port G5 to 64-bit and I started this year
> with converting OFW to FDT. Yesterday was my first day back at this, and I
> made some results happen. In fact walking Openfirmware
> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:11:38 +0100
> From: "Peter J. Philipp"
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 02:57:19PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > > Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 14:12:07 +0100
> > > From: "Peter J. Philipp"
> > >
> > > Hi li
> From: "Jens A. Griepentrog"
> Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 15:01:22 +0200
>
> Dear Listeners,
>
> Is the OpenBSD limit smaller than the physical limit of 2TB of RAM?
As far as I know, there is no limit on the amount of physical RAM in
powerpc64 machines, with the caveat that radeondrm(4) may not wo
> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 07:40:01 +
> From: Alan Gifford
>
> I'm looking for some assistance with installing OpenBSD 6.9 on a Raptor
> Talos II system. I got the system installed, using the automatic disk
> layout, but upon reboot, Petitboot doesn't see any eligible boot disk.
> I can drop to
> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 20:33:34 +
> From: Alan Gifford
>
> Hi George,
>
> Thanks for the information! I have the same error reported in my dmesg
> about the astfb0 framebuffer. Is this just a bug in the AST2500
> firmware? Just wondering what direction to take to correct this. To
> me,
> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2021 23:18:41 -0400
> From: George Koehler
>
> This sloppy diff enables astfb on my Talos. It works around the
> firmware's wrong sc_fbaddr by mapping PCI BAR 0x10 and using it as a
> framebuffer. Mark, you might make a better diff?
That doesn't work since the framebuffer m
> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 18:02:59 +0200
> From: Greg Kurz
>
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2021 15:12:31 +
> Joseph wrote:
>
> > On Friday, August 27th, 2021 at 11:01 PM, Greg Kurz wrote:
> > > Linux knows how to drive both powernv and pseries platforms.
> > ..
> > > OpenBSD might have to implement prop
> From: Cédric Le Goater
> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 10:46:52 +0200
>
> Hello,
>
> On 8/27/21 7:00 PM, Greg Kurz wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Aug 2021 18:48:04 +0200
> > Mark Kettenis wrote:
> >
> >>> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 18:02:59 +0200
> >>&g
> From: Daniel Pocock
> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 11:14:36 +0200
>
> I decided to make another test install of OpenBSD nightly build from 29
> August on one of my workstations.
>
> The system is Talos II, dual CPU, 128GB and AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB. Is
> this GPU currently supported?
Not on powerpc6
> From: Daniel Pocock
> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:45:50 +0200
>
> After the feedback about amdgpu being unsupported on the big endian
> OpenBSD build, I decided to try a radeondrm supported card, the Radeon
> R9 290X ASUS DirectCU II 4GB.
I fear that card is too new and doesn't work on big-endia
> From: "Theo de Raadt"
> Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2024 14:00:57 -0600
>
> I am surprised that two of you have managed to mix parts from
> -current and 7.5.
>
> Can you two figure out how you did this?
The first snapshots after 7.5 still shipped an ld.so that called
msyscall(2). The diff to remove th
> From: Eric Grosse
> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:17:23 -0700
>
> A bit of progress: in a kernel built with George Koehler's suggested
> replacement of isync by sync and with uncommented GENERIC.MP
> option MP_LOCKDEBUG
> option WITNESS
> and (getting rid of any dependence on Go) generating load
> b
> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:33:34 -0400
> From: Joe Lannon
>
> I have a PowerMac G4 with R128 AGP 16MB video. Xorg will run without
> a configure file, but it's stuck at 800x600.
>
> As soon as I generate an xorg.conf
"generate an xorg.conf"? How did you do that?
> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 04:19:45 -0200
> From: Senjogahara
>
> How do I configure my WIFI USB Adapter in OpenBSD? It is a model Realtek
> RTL8187B.
Since you're posting to the powerpc-specific OpenBSD mailing list, I'm
assuming you're usong OpenBSD/macppc, but next time please provide
more inf
> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:20:00 -0200
> From: Senjogahara
>
> I added the line corresponding to the device in the config of the
> kernel. I added using the "vi". But after me to have added this line,
> appears an error message.
>
> Error message:
> "Don't forget to run "make depend""
>
> I
> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 09:15:39 -0500
> From: Super Bisquit
>
> It's set at -1 and detects agp on p...@f000. Will setting it at 0 allow
> it to detect Matrox Toucan on p...@f200 on slot 1?
I doubt it. Messing with this variable potentially makes your machine
unbootable, so it is probab
> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 18:48:43 -0800
> From: Scott Stanley
>
> I'd like to use some of my big sata drives on my g4. Looking at the
> various acrchitecture support pages, i386 is the only one that has an
> explicit listing of pci sata controllers, so I initially concluded
> that none were suppor
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:33:48 -0500
> From: Justin H Haynes
>
> I am running OpenBSD 5.0 on a Powermac G4 (Digital Audio) with an unmodified
> GENERIC kernel. It has run just fine for days at a time with no obvious
> problems of any kind until i tried to add new 32-bit PCI SATA cards to it.
> Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 20:16:34 +1000
> From: Jonathan Gray
>
> The final models had a different host bridge (u4 instead of u3).
Not sure if that was the big stumbling block though. It might
actually make things easier since apparently the u4 is in fact an IBM
CPC945 bridge for wich documenta
> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 12:25:41 +0200
> From: luca suriano
>
> drm: initializing kernel modesetting (RV200 0x1002:0x4C57 0x1002:0x4C57).
> error: [drm:pid0:radeon_get_bios] *ERROR* Unable to locate a BIOS ROM
> drm: Using generic clock info
> radeondrm0: VRAM: 128M 0x9800 - 0x00
> From: Ralph Siegler
> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 00:39:37 + (UTC)
>
> The display on this emac goes blank right at the end of booting, even
> though display works fine from bsd.rd
>
>
> Not using X and answered "No" to expecting to use X during install.
>
> Now emac with radeon is not in the
> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 09:29:02 -0800
> From: Steven Osborne
>
> I am installing OpenBSD 5.5 64-bit to my Power Mac G5 (7,3) Dual G5
> 2.7GHz machine and am trying to find information about my graphics
> card: Radeon X800 256MB RAM, stats as given by Mac OS X 10.5.8:
>
> ATI Radeon X800 XT:
>
Hi All,
I just switched the OpenBSD/powerpc ports (macppc and socppc) over to
the "new" Secure-PLT. This improves the W^X support. If you're not
following -current closely, you might want to avoid updating from
source and install a snapshot instead.
If you decide to update from source, make sur
> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 11:54:55 -0800
> From: Bryan Vyhmeister
>
> I just installed OpenBSD-current on my PowerMac11,2 which is the very
> last generation of PowerMac G5 systems. My particular one is the quad
> 2.5GHz model.
>
> As a sidenote, I tried installing an Intel 535 SSD and an OCZ Vert
> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 11:06:31 -0800
> From: Bryan Vyhmeister
>
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 09:08:19PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > > Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 11:54:55 -0800
> > > From: Bryan Vyhmeister
> > >
> > > I just installed Open
> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 17:43:47 +0200
> From: "Peter J. Philipp"
>
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 10:04:01AM +0200, Peter J. Philipp wrote:
> > Hi OpenBSD PPC Community,
>
> Hi again! I've managed to get a bit further. I'm a step away from linking
> the kernel for the first time, but I have error
> Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 19:35:02 +0100 (CET)
> From: Mark Kettenis
>
> > Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 12:26:17 +0100 (CET)
> > From: Mark Kettenis
> >
> > That's a very good find. I think there still is a potential race in
> > your diff on MP systems
> Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 21:20:11 +0100 (CET)
> From: Mark Kettenis
>
> > Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 19:35:02 +0100 (CET)
> > From: Mark Kettenis
> >
> > > Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 12:26:17 +0100 (CET)
> > > From: Mark Kettenis
> > >
&g
> Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2018 09:48:10 +0100
> From: Landry Breuil
>
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 09:20:11PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > > Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 19:35:02 +0100 (CET)
> > > From: Mark Kettenis
> > >
> > > > Date: Sun, 23 Dec 20
> Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 19:55:00 +0200
> From: "Peter J. Philipp"
>
> Hi,
>
> I am working on converting ofwreal.S to 64-bit and I'm basing the stack
> (section 3.2.2) off this document:
>
> http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/ELF/ppc64/PPC-elf64abi.html
>
> I haven't found a 32-bit version
> Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 18:09:01 +0200
> From: "Peter J. Philipp"
>
> On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 07:58:36PM +0200, Karel Gardas wrote:
> > Could you be also so kind and share information about how do you build
> > OpenBSD for PPC64 and how do you boot whatever you get from the build. I'm
> > especi
> Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 20:12:40 +0200
> From: "Peter J. Philipp"
>
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 07:03:56PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > Ome thing to keep in mind with hte G5 is that it is a bit strange and
> > event when running in 32-bit mode it takes traps
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