ANNOUNCE: powerpc64 now in -CURRENT

[Justin Hibbits]

On Jul 14, 2010, at 9:17 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:

>
> 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

This is awesome.  Downloading the livefs now to test on my G5.

- Justin