FreeBSD on Xserve ?

[jade at oxymail.org]

Selon Michael Clark <MClark at Nemschoff.com>:


Well if the G5 doesn't work on freebie, somthing's not logic : Os X claims to be
freebsd based, so how come there's no return from Apple on how to make a G5 work
on a BSD system ?
I don't understand...

Jade




> 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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