[Bug 271826] FreeBSD is disastrously slow on a PowerMac G5, freezing at every command

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=271826

Mitch <mitch_com@hotmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #14 from Mitch <mitch_com@hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Justin Hibbits from comment #13)
To answer your question I've tried several release on my PowerMac G5 Quad
(PowerMac 11,2 with pcie bus) using the DVD drive.

Here are the results

12.4 Boots and installs just fine.

13.0 Kernel loads but painfully slow, very similar behaviour to Sergey's issue.
Loads normally until "Root mount waiting for: usbus2" then fans are roaring and
takes forever to get to the Install menu.

13.1 Pretty much the same as 13.0, except even worse as it simply reboots on
its own from time to time.

13.2 Doesn't load at all, Black screen with fans roaring immediately.

14.0 Latest Snapshot, Same observation as 13.2.

According to what I've seen, the Toolchain/ABI starting with release 13 has
departed from GCC4 which makes it even more red herring.

It would be really awesome to get a PPC970/MP functional 64bit release with
modern toolchain ! 

I'd like to help testing/troubleshooting as I fear this is the latest
opportunity we have until this platform fall into oblivion. 

Cheers,

Michael

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