Failed attempt to boot a (non-debug) head -r339076 on an old PowerMac G5 "Quad Core" (built via devel/powerpc64-gcc): Waking up CPU 1

[Justin Hibbits]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 15:37:43 -0400
Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote:

> On 10/08/2018 03:04 PM, Mark Millard via freebsd-ppc wrote:
> > On 2018-Oct-8, at 10:25 AM, Michael Tuexen <tuexen at
> > fh-muenster.de> wrote: 
> >>> On 8. Oct 2018, at 19:00, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> [kern.smp.disabled=1 is confirmed to enable booting
> >>> my head -r339076 build on teh "Quad Core", much like
> >>> the 11.2 reports for "2MHz dual-core".]  
> >> Does 11.2 run with smp enabled?  
> > 
> > [My wording was poor: "reports" in "11.2 reports with
> > smp enabled" was referring to reports by you and others
> > on the lists, not screen messages from attempting a
> > 11.2 boot.]
> > 
> > No clue at this point for the G5 "Quad Core". I have no
> > 11.x context established, and have not since head
> > went from 11 to 12, as I remember. Would trying to boot
> > an installer/live for 11.2 be sufficient to test
> > this?  
> 
> 
> I have tried over and over to install 11.2 on a G5 with dual PPC970
> sockets wherein both are dual core. There is no quad core. Never was.
> Anyways, the install simply doesn't work.
> 
> Dennis

It would be helpful to know the last known-good SVN revision, both for
Head and 11.x, as well as the oldest failing one.  Since my G5 bit the
dust, I can't check locally.

- Justin