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

Mehul Sanghvi mehul.sanghvi at gmail.com
Sat Feb 13 23:39:35 UTC 2021


Yes this is a 32 bit PowerMac G4.  I guess that explains things.

I do plan to get a 64-bit PPC at some point this year so would be going to FreeBSD first since it seems like there is PPC64 support.



cheers,

       mehul


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> On Feb 12, 2021, at 13:20, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 05:18:53PM -0500, Mehul Sanghvi wrote:
>> But for some reason I couldn’t get pkg working, to install binaries
>> or even doing builds in /use/pkg.
> 
> Hmm.  Most of us who have powerpc machines have never had this problem ...
> 
> ... is this a 32-bit system?  If so, that is why; we have never built
> official packages for anything other than powerpc64 (64-bit, big-endian).
> 
> mcl


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