FreeBSD on Xserve ?

[Michael Clark]

Is PPC support far enough along that it could be used functionally?
Last I read the website There was not much working.  I have been
holding off installing my powerbook =)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Leimbach [mailto:leimy2k at mac.com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 10:05 AM
> To: jade at oxymail.org
> Cc: freebsd-ppc at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Xserve ?
> 
> 
> I don't think we have G5 support yet.  G5's are significantly 
> different 
> from G4s in a few ways that really matter to operating systems.  
> Missing BAT registers and other "fun stuff" like fan-drivers 
> have meant 
> that even platforms that support 64bit PPC don't necessarily 
> support G5 
> [like the L4 microkernels I've been playing with]
> 
> Dave
> On Sep 12, 2004, at 2:30 AM, jade at oxymail.org wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm planning on buying an Apple Xserve G5 bi-processor. I 
> know mac os 
> > X (server)
> > is running on it and that's a modified version of freebsd.
> > So here are my questions :
> >
> > - I've been using freebsd for a while now and if I buy the 
> Xserve I'd 
> > very much
> > like to replace mac os X by a freebsd 5.2 / 5.3 if this is 
> possible. My
> > motivations are that I want to make intensive use of Jails and 
> > Mandatory Access
> > Control (MAC). I'd also like to recompile the whole thing 
> with stack 
> > protection
> > (if possible).
> >
> > Yet I have no idea if Mac os X can run jails, and MAC 
> (anyone an idea 
> > here ?),
> > but if not, I'd switch to Freebie.
> >
> > So in general :
> > - has anyone experienced the change
> > - would it be difficult to replace OS X by FreeBSD ?
> > - would it be possible to run these options (Jails,MAC,stack 
> > protection) on this
> > hardware ?
> >
> > Thanks for the hints, because I'm a little lost.
> >
> > By,
> > Jade.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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