diff --git a/en/platforms/ppc.sgml b/en/platforms/ppc.sgml
index 88db9db364..6e81ac00be 100644
--- a/en/platforms/ppc.sgml
+++ b/en/platforms/ppc.sgml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-
+
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@
+ - 03 April, 2009: Support for the PowerPC G5
+ has been committed to SVN.
- 03 March, 2008: Support for Freescale®
PowerQUICC III MPC85XX family system-on-chip development boards
has been committed into CVS.
@@ -67,14 +69,6 @@
Please follow instructions given
here.
-
-
- Courtesy of Peter Grehan and Tilman Linneweh, you can find some packages
- here and
- here.
- Please note that these packages are now quite outdated. If possible, you
- should use ports instead.
-
The easy way to use ports on FreeBSD since 6.0-RELEASE is to use portsnap.
@@ -149,6 +143,30 @@
Andreas Tobler |
None |
+
+ Apple |
+ PowerMac G5 |
+ |
+ FreeBSD 8.0 |
+
+
+ Apple |
+ iMac G5 |
+ |
+ FreeBSD 8.0 |
+
+
+ Apple |
+ Xserve G5 |
+ |
+ FreeBSD 8.1 |
+
+
+ Apple |
+ PowerMac G5 (late 2005) |
+ |
+ FreeBSD 8.1 |
+
@@ -166,12 +184,7 @@
- - G5 CPUs are supported only in 8.0-RELEASE and higher.
- - SMP is available only in 8.0-RELEASE and higher, and only on
- G4 systems.
- - sysinstall cannot partition disks correctly.
- - ADB keyboards (as in Apple laptops) are supported only in 8.0-RELEASE
- and higher.
+ - sysinstall cannot partition disks correctly — gpart must be used instead.
- For ATI Radeon-based machines, a ofw syscons range check needs to be
relaxed using the sysctl hw.ofwfb.relax_mmap.
- There is a known bug in the boot-loader, that prevents you from