11.2-RC3 powerpc CD image does not boot on PowerMac G4

[Jukka Ukkonen]

Broken SMP sounds like a plausible explanation. I don’t have
the foggiest idea, though, what sort of changes have been 
done in the 11.x code and what to look for. 

--jau


> On 25 Jun 2018, at 18.41, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Maybe it's the 32-bit SMP stuff? I certainly have not tried running a 32-bit SMP system in a long time -- has anyone else? All the SMP focus lately has been on 64-bit systems. The timing sounds like about when it would spin up your secondary CPU.
> -Nathan
> 
>> On 06/25/18 08:38, Jukka Ukkonen wrote:
>> PowerMac G4 QuickSilver, Jan-Aug 2002.
>> 2 CPUs, PowerPC 7455 rev 2.1 @1GHz
>> 1 GiB memory
>> 
>> The system goes south so hard there is no panic message.
>> The display just goes black for half a minute or so and then
>> a reboot.
>> 
>> --jau
>> 
>> 
>>> On 25 Jun 2018, at 18.11, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Do you have any more information on this? Model number, panic message, etc.? It seems to work fine on other hardware.
>>> -Nathan
>>> 
>>>> On 06/22/18 06:42, Jukka A. Ukkonen wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> The 11.2-RC3 powerpc CD image does not boot on PowerMac G4.
>>>> It crashes during the kernel autoconfigure phase and tries
>>>> to reboot.
>>>> It is plain obvious that nobody has tested booting 11.2 ppc
>>>> at all before something related to booting and early autoconfig
>>>> activities has been committed. The last release which I know to
>>>> boot properly on PowerMac G4 is 10.4.
>>>> 
>>>> --jau
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> freebsd-ppc at freebsd.org mailing list
>>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc
>>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> freebsd-ppc at freebsd.org mailing list
>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc
>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>