ANNOUNCE: powerpc64 now in -CURRENT

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 07/13/10 16:43, 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)
>
> New Features:
> - Support for>  2 GB of RAM
> - ZFS (patches under review, not yet in -CURRENT)
>    
ZFS has now transitioned from 'coming soon' to 'in -CURRENT'. Please be 
aware that it has had extremely limited testing so far -- I made a zfs 
filesystem on my desktop and then checked out a ports tree into it -- so 
treat it with caution for the time being.
-Nathan