Installation of 9.2 or 10.0-RC2 to Powerbook G4 1.67

[Justin Hibbits]

Hi Britt,

I have just committed a fix for this in head, r260872.  I'll be MFCing
it to stable/10 and stable/9 next week.  Until then, you could try
building a bootable CD on another machine, for head, and give it a go.

- Justin

On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 18:56:55 -0500
Britt Dodd <brittman914 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Excellent! If *anybody* needs ppc32/ppc64 testing or shell access for
> compiling, please message me.
> 
> Thanks Justin for your reply. Is this error present in 8.x releases?
> Do you think I could run 8.x until the patch comes out, and then
> somehow upgrade to 10.0-RC2+?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Justin Hibbits
> <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu>wrote:
> 
> > Hi Britt,
> >
> > On Jan 3, 2014 12:21 PM, "Britt Dodd" <brittman914 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Good afternoon,
> > >
> > > I'd like to begin by saying that while I do have a bunch of x86
> > > systems, I'd also like to make (limited) use of powerpc hardware
> > > -- mainly a Powerbook G4, an XServe G5 and a XServe G4 (it'll be
> > > the 'garage mac').
> > >
> > > OSX support died with 10.5. A bunch of Linux distros totally
> > > dropped building for ppc/32. I'm starting to really get attached
> > > to running
> > FreeBSD
> > > and would like to install it on my powerpc equipment.
> > >
> > > I attempted to load the LiveCD in my powerbook, and maybe 2
> > > seconds into bootup (with tty output on screen) the entire system
> > > abruptly shuts off.
> > >
> > > Any hints?
> > >
> > >
> > > Britt
> >
> > I see this very issue, and I think it is caused by the PMU being
> > initialized early, and not emptying the mailbox.  I will be testing
> > a patch in the next few weeks when I get time to tackle this, and
> > hopefully a fix will be in soon.
> >
> > -Justin
> >