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Update PowerPC port page to reflect the introduction of G5 support and

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the recent availability of binary packages from portmgr. While here, time
out several caveats that only applied to RELENG_7.
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional-Based Extension//EN" [
<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/platforms/ppc.sgml,v 1.22 2009/02/20 14:58:30 nwhitehorn Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/platforms/ppc.sgml,v 1.23 2009/10/13 14:26:50 nwhitehorn Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD/ppc Project">
<!ENTITY email 'freebsd-ppc'>
<!ENTITY % navinclude.developers "INCLUDE">
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<h3><a name="news">Latest News</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>03 April, 2009</strong>: Support for the PowerPC G5
has been committed to SVN.</li>
<li><strong>03 March, 2008</strong>: Support for Freescale&reg;
PowerQUICC III MPC85XX family system-on-chip development boards
has been committed into CVS.</li>
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Please follow instructions given
<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/iso_install.txt">here</a>.</p>
<h4><a name="2">Where can I find packages for FreeBSD/ppc?</a></h4>
<p>Courtesy of Peter Grehan and Tilman Linneweh, you can find some packages
<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/ppc_pkgs/">here</a> and
<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~arved/packages_powerpc/">here</a>.
Please note that these packages are now quite outdated. If possible, you
should use ports instead.</p>
<h4><a name="3">How to use ports on FreeBSD/ppc?</a></h4>
<p>The easy way to use ports on FreeBSD since 6.0-RELEASE is to use portsnap.
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<td><a href="mailto:toa@pop.agri.ch">Andreas Tobler</a></td>
<td>None</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Apple</td>
<td>PowerMac G5</td>
<td></td>
<td>FreeBSD 8.0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Apple</td>
<td>iMac G5</td>
<td></td>
<td>FreeBSD 8.0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Apple</td>
<td>Xserve G5</td>
<td></td>
<td>FreeBSD 8.1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Apple</td>
<td>PowerMac G5 (late 2005)</td>
<td></td>
<td>FreeBSD 8.1</td>
</tr>
</table>
<hr noshade>
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<h3><a name="issues">Known Issues</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>G5 CPUs are supported only in 8.0-RELEASE and higher.</li>
<li>SMP is available only in 8.0-RELEASE and higher, and only on
G4 systems.</li>
<li>sysinstall cannot partition disks correctly.</li>
<li>ADB keyboards (as in Apple laptops) are supported only in 8.0-RELEASE
and higher.</li>
<li>sysinstall cannot partition disks correctly &mdash; gpart must be used instead.</li>
<li>For ATI Radeon-based machines, a ofw syscons range check needs to be
relaxed using the sysctl hw.ofwfb.relax_mmap.</li>
<li>There is a known bug in the boot-loader, that prevents you from