Best Hardware

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 05:09:54PM -0500, Al Zick wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What is the best hardware for running FreeBSD on PPC?

Assuming you mean 32-bit PowerPC, I'm running 12.0-CURRENT r302710 (that
is pre-ino64 and pre-64-bit-time_t) with no software-related problems.

There is one hardware-related problem, but that's not Apple's fault: I'm
using SATA-IDE adapter (this allows to use larger HDDs instead of 320GB
WD Blue, the largest 2.5" IDE drive available on the market) and it often
would fail to boot and I have to power-cycle the machine a few times until
it passes through.  Sometimes (rarely) it fails during heavy disk activity
(e.g. building ports in the tinderbox).

On-board NIC and USB work fine, even sound works, but there's no mixer so
it's not easily possible to control the volume.

./danfe