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[Peter Grehan]

>>I've been looking for a G4 Xserve on eBay -- but all I can find now are
>>G5 models. :-(
> 
> That's something I was wondering about but couldn't see in a year's
> worth of archives; how SOL are we for FreeBSD on a G5 and what are the
> barriers?

  The G5 is a true 64-bit CPU with a 64-bit MMU. 32-bit user-mode code 
can run unchanged, but the kernel has to deal with the 64-bit MMU and 
various other bits and pieces that are painful to implement.

  I have a 1.6G uniprocessor G5, and have mucked around with it a bit - 
the loader works, for instance - but it might be a while before things 
start happening.

later,

Peter.