ANNOUNCE: powerpc64 now in -CURRENT

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 07/16/10 19:19, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Peter Grehan<grehan at freebsd.org>  wrote:
>    
>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/FreeBSD-9.0-20100715-SNAP-powerpc64
>>>        
>>   This booted fine on the first (1.6GHz 7,2) and last (quad 2.5GHz 11,2) G5
>> towers. Now to try an install :)
>>      
> Out of curiosity, how much memory was in each of these systems? I
> think both of my systems have 4 GB of RAM. Could that make any
> difference on the SATA side?
>    
I don't think so, especially since drive detection is a PIO operation. 
My work desktop has 5.5 GB, and has performed well in daily use for 
several months now. I strongly suspect there is some kind of timeout in 
ATA device detection that is ever-so-slightly too short with some 
controllers, and that that is causing the problem here.
-Nathan