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Update PowerPC platform Known Issues to reflect the issues that still

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actually apply and indicate that some features are available in -CURRENT,
instead of completely missing.
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Nathan Whitehorn 2009-02-20 14:58:30 +00:00
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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 1.20 2007/02/02 07:41:09 joel Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/platforms/ppc.sgml,v 1.21 2008/06/09 19:30:50 jkois Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD/ppc Project">
<!ENTITY email 'freebsd-ppc'>
<!ENTITY % navinclude.developers "INCLUDE">
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<ul>
<li>No AltiVec support yet.</li>
<li>G5 CPUs are unsupported.</li>
<li>SMP is not yet supported.</li>
<li>On-board BMAC+ ethernet does not work. There is a work-in-progress
bm(4) driver available on Peter Grehan's personal page
<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/">here</a> (see if_bm.c and
if_bmreg.h).</li>
<li>There is no graphical mouse cursor on console.</li>
<li>SMP is available only in -CURRENT.</li>
<li>Fdisk does not work.</li>
<li>Only USB keyboards are supported.</li>
<li>If you have Bluetooth, there is a 'fake' OHCI port and devices
created that can be used to access a wireless keyboard or mouse.
Problem is, it gets probed before the fixed keyboard/mouse and is
first in line to syscons. To get around this, the PCI slot associated
with the problematic ohci2 can be disabled at the loader prompt:
<pre>OK set hint.pcib.1.skipslot=26</pre></li>
<li>For ATI Radeon-based machines:
<ul>
<li>A ofw syscons range check needs to be relaxed using the sysctl
hw.ofwfb.relax_mmap.</li>
<li>A special radeon
<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/radeon_driver.c">driver</a>
is needed. You must add the following your xorg.conf into the
Section "Device": <pre>Option "iBookHacks" "on"</pre></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>ADB keyboards (as in Apple laptops) are supported only in -CURRENT</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
loading an alternate kernel, so testing your kernel is a bit risky.
When booting the loader from the Open Firmware prompt, give it a