how many users of FreeBSD 12 do we have on powerpc?

[Luciano Mannucci]

On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:39:21 +0000
Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:

> (Also, I personally believe that it is fair to say "we do not really
> support powerpc* on 10.X or 11.Y.  Please upgrade.")
> 
> How many people will these changes effect?  It's time to speak up ...
Well, I have just finished migrating my first PPC64 FreeBSD production
servers from 11.3-RELEASE to 12.2-RELEASE. Seems that it is working.
It has been easier than expected, though non really straigh forward:
I had to recompile everything (11.X did'nt have precompiled pkgs) and
did'nt notice that per was moved from 5.30 to 5.32, so I had to do it
twice. I have another couple of production machines that I will migrate
very soon, though these will be reinstalled and reloaded with data
from the previous version.

On Mac 32 bit front, mine runs 9.2 since I don't dare to do anything
major on it for the hardware is not really pristine :), since it
is a 1998 powerbook.

Thanks for the magnificient work you have done3 up to now,

Luciano.
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