ANNOUNCE: powerpc64 now in -CURRENT

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On Jul 13, 2010, at 4:43 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:

> As of r210025, 64-bit PowerPC support is now present in -CURRENT.
> Thanks to all who tested this branch and gave feedback, in particular
> Patrick Kerharo and Andreas Tobler for consultation and endless
> testing, and to Peter Grehan for prodding me into doing this.
>
> Supported hardware:
> - CPUs: PowerPC 970, Cell, POWER4, POWER5, POWER6, POWER7
> - Machines: Apple Power Macintosh G5, Apple iMac G5, IBM Cell
>  Simulator, Sony Playstation 3 (coming soon)
>
> Upgrade instructions:
>
> The safest way to move from a 32-bit to a 64-bit system is to  
> reinstall
> the system from scratch. However, there are not yet install CDs (this
> should be fixed soon), and some people may not wish to do this. So,  
> for
> the adventurous:

Anyone interested can now download hot off the presses CDs from
http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/FreeBSD-9.0-20100715-SNAP-powerpc64
-Nathan