Hardware support for PowerMac G5 11,2

[Justin Hibbits]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 2:18 PM, N. S. Montanaro via freebsd-ppc
<freebsd-ppc at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently came into possession of a PowerMac G5 quad-core with liquid cooling. Since OS X 10.4 and 10.5 are a bit dated I'm hoping to run FreeBSD instead.
>
> Does 11.1 support the hardware for this particular model? Specifically, I was unsure if the liquid cooling system would need support on the OS level, or if that is handled by OpenFirmware.
>
> Thanks.

Yes, 11.1 does support the G5 11,2.  I have the DC 2.3GHz which works
really well.  The liquid cooling system will show up as another fan,
and is managed via the powermac_thermal driver.

- Justin