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&header;
<p>This page contains information about porting FreeBSD to the
PowerPC&reg;.</p>
<h3>General Information</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="#news">Latest News</a></li>
<li><a href="#faq">Port FAQs</a></li>
<li><a href="#list">FreeBSD/PowerPC mailing list</a></li>
<li><a href="#hardware">Supported Hardware</a></li>
<li><a href="#list">FreeBSD/ppc mailing list</a></li>
<li><a href="#issues">Known Issues</a></li>
<li><a href="#doc">Documentation, White Papers, Utilities</a></li>
<li><a href="#links">Other links of interest</a></li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="intro">Introduction</a></h3>
<p>The FreeBSD/ppc project pages contain information about the FreeBSD
port to the PowerPC&reg; architecture. As with the port itself, these
pages are still a work in progress.</p>
<p>The FreeBSD/ppc port is still a Tier-2 platform. That means it is
not being fully supported by our security officer, release engineers and
toolchain maintainers.<p>
<hr noshade>
<h3><a name="news">Latest News</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><p><strong>3 July, 2002</strong> : This page has been
significantly updated. FreeBSD/PowerPC currently boots almost to
the point of reaching single-user mode.</p></li>
<li><p>An older news list can be found on
<a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~benno/">Benno's page</a>,
and you can view the
<A HREF="http://jeamland.net/~benno/powerpc-boot.txt">bootup log</A>.</p>
</li>
<li><strong>1 July, 2005</strong>: This page has been
significantly updated.</li>
</ul>
<hr noshade>
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<h3><a name="faq">Frequently Asked Questions</a></h3>
<ol>
<li><a href="#1">What is the FreeBSD/PowerPC project?</a></li>
<li><a href="#2">What hardware are you targeting?</a></li>
<li><a href="#3">What is the current status?</a></li>
<li><a href="#4">How can I acquire FreeBSD/PowerPC?</a></li>
<li><a href="#5">Who should I contact?</a></li>
<li><a href="#1">How can I install FreeBSD/ppc</a></li>
<li><a href="#2">Where can I find packages for FreeBSD/ppc?</a></li>
<li><a href="#3">Who should I contact?</a></li>
</ol>
<h4><a name="1">What is the FreeBSD/PowerPC project?</a></h4>
<h4><a name="1">How can I install FreeBSD/ppc?</a></h4>
<p>FreeBSD/PowerPC is a port of the FreeBSD operating system
to computers with the PowerPC processor, most notably
recent Macintosh&reg; computers.</p>
<p>FreeBSD/ppc is in HEAD branch of the FreeBSD CVS repository. However
there is an ISO image available for download
<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/6.0-20050518-SNAP-powerpc-disc1.iso">here</a>.
Please follow instructions given
<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/iso_install.txt">here</a>.</p>
<h4><a name="2">What hardware are you targeting?</a></h4>
<h4><a name="2">Where can I find packages for FreeBSD/ppc?</a></h4>
<p>At the moment "New World" (i.e. colourful case)
Apple Macintoshes. Other platforms, such as older
Power Mac&reg;s and non-Apple computers using Open Firmware,
are expected to be targeted later on. </p>
<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>.
<h4><a name="3">What is the current status?</a></h4>
<h4><a name="3">Who should I contact?</a></h4>
<p>FreeBSD/PowerPC currently is on the verge of booting
to single-user mode.</p>
<h4><a name="4">How can I acquire FreeBSD/PowerPC?</a></h4>
<p>FreeBSD/PowerPC is mostly in cvs for -CURRENT.</p>
<h4><a name="5">Who should I contact?</a></h4>
<p><a href="mailto:benno@FreeBSD.org">Benno Rice</a> is the project lead.
Contact him if you can contribute code. If you just want
<p><a href="mailto:grehan@FreeBSD.org">Peter Grehan</a> is the project
lead. Contact him if you can contribute code. If you just want
to know about the status of this project, check this page
regularly or join the
<a href="#list">FreeBSD/PowerPC mailing list</a>.</p>
<a href="#list">FreeBSD/ppc mailing list</a>.</p>
<h3><a name="list">FreeBSD/PowerPC mailing list</a></h3>
<hr noshade>
<p>To subscribe to this list, send mail to <tt class="
EMAIL">&#60;<a href="mailto:freebsd-ppc-subscribe@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-ppc-subscribe@FreeBSD.org</a>&#62;</tt>
or visit <a href="http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc">mailman interface</a>.</p>
<h3><a name="hardware">Supported Hardware</a></h3>
<p>The FreeBSD/ppc port should run on any New-World machine. People
reported FreeBSD runs on following machines:</p>
<table class="tasklist" border="3" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0">
<tr class="heading">
<th>Manufacturer</th>
<th>Model</th>
<th>Submitter (optional links)</th>
<th>Notes</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Apple</td>
<td>iMac G3 350 MHz</td>
<td><a href="mailto:diskiller@diskiller.net">Martin Minkus</a></td>
<td>Rage 128VR</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Apple</td>
<td>iMac G3 Revision B</td>
<td><a href="mailto:grehan@FreeBSD.org">Peter Grehan</a></td>
<td>Rage 3D Pro 215GP, accel disabled</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Apple</td>
<td>eMac 700 MHz</td>
<td><a href="mailto:grehan@FreeBSD.org">Peter Grehan</a></td>
<td>Nvidia GeForce2 MX</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Apple</td>
<td>Mac Mini G4 1.4 GHz</td>
<td><a href="mailto:arved@FreeBSD.org">Tilman Linneweh</a>
(<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~arved/stuff/minimac">dmesg</a>)</td>
<td>None</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Apple</td>
<td>Powerbook G4 1.33 GHz</td>
<td><a href="mailto:grehan@FreeBSD.org">Peter Grehan</a></td>
<td>Nvidia GeForce G5200</td>
</tr>
</table>
<hr noshade>
<h3><a name="list">FreeBSD/ppc mailing list</a></h3>
<p>To subscribe to this list, send mail to
<a href="mailto:freebsd-ppc-subscribe@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-ppc-subscribe@FreeBSD.org</a>
or visit
<a href="http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc">mailman
interface</a>.</p>
<hr noshade>
<h3><a name="issues">Known Issues</a></h3>
<ul>
<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>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>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 OpenFirmware prompt, give it a
partition which is either non-existent, doesn't have a kernel to load,
or isn't a UFS partition:
<pre>0 > boot hd:loader hd:0</pre>
At this point, you can set currdev and manually load a kernel:
<pre>OK set currdev=hd:14
OK load /boot/kernel/kernel.save</pre>
</li>
<li>Some patches are needed to build your own world and kernel:
<ul>
<li>
RELENG_5 (GCC 3.4.2):
<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/rs6000.c.diff">rs6000.c.diff</a>
and
<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/sysv4.h.diff">sysv4.h.diff</a>
</li>
<li>
HEAD (GCC 3.4.4):
<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~arved/stuff/ppc/patch-rs6000.c">rs6000.c.diff</a>
and
<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~arved/stuff/ppc/patch-sysv4.h">sysv4.h.diff</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<hr noshade>
<h3><a name="doc">Documentation, White Papers, Utilities</a></h3>
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<li><a href="http://e-www.motorola.com/brdata/PDFDB/docs/MPCFPE32B.pdf">
PowerPC chip documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.firmworks.com/QuickRef.html">
Open Firmware Quick Reference</a></li>
<li><a href="http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1061.html">
"TN1061: Fundamentals of OpenFirmware, Part 1 - The User
Interface"</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/hardware/hardware2.html">
Apple hardware developer docs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://sourceware.cygnus.com/psim/">
psim</A> - A PowerPC simulator, available as a
FreeBSD port at <A HREF="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/emulators.html#psim-freebsd-5.2">/usr/ports/emulators/psim-freebsd</A>.</li>
<li><a href="http://sourceware.cygnus.com/psim/">psim</a> - A PowerPC
simulator, available as a FreeBSD port at
<a href="http://www.freshports.org/?package=psim-freebsd">emulators/psim-freebsd</a></li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="links">Other Links of Interest</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wikitest.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/powerpc">FreeBSD/ppc
wiki page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2005-January/000814.html">
Garance A. Drosehn's description about FreeBSD on the Mac
Mini</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.NetBSD.org/Ports/macppc/">NetBSD/macppc</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.OpenBSD.org/macppc.html">OpenBSD/macppc</a></li>
</ul>
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