I have submitted https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23376 for avoiding the PowerMac threads-stuck-sleeping issue

[Francis Little]

Yes, I compiled from source.

I reinstalled from a recent memstick image from the 13 snapshots on the FTP
site.

Had to interrupt the loader to disable SMP during the install and keep it
disabled after.

Checkout current, patch and just buildkernel as world is close enough for
now.

Rebooted and enabled SMP.



On Mon, 27 Jan 2020, 23:36 Dennis Clarke via freebsd-ppc, <
freebsd-ppc at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 2020-01-27 14:54, Francis Little wrote:
> > Well that seems to do the trick!
> >
> > PowerMac G5 Quad, running the r357172 kernel, plus this patch.
> >
> > All fans normal, no odd hanging threads, compiling ports etc with all 4
> > cores, seems stable.
> >
> > Will continue testing.
>
> Really?  Working well?  I know that you and I have very similar hardware
> and yet there are differences also. I will give it a try.
>
> Did you use a snapshot or compile from source ?
>
>
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