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<html> <html>
&header; &header;
<p>This page contains information about porting FreeBSD to the
PowerPC&reg;.</p>
<h3>General Information</h3> <h3>General Information</h3>
<ul> <ul>
<li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="#news">Latest News</a></li> <li><a href="#news">Latest News</a></li>
<li><a href="#faq">Port FAQs</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="#doc">Documentation, White Papers, Utilities</a></li>
<li><a href="#links">Other links of interest</a></li> <li><a href="#links">Other links of interest</a></li>
</ul> </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> <h3><a name="news">Latest News</a></h3>
<ul> <ul>
<li><p><strong>3 July, 2002</strong> : This page has been <li><strong>1 July, 2005</strong>: This page has been
significantly updated. FreeBSD/PowerPC currently boots almost to significantly updated.</li>
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>
</ul> </ul>
<hr noshade> <hr noshade>
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<h3><a name="faq">Frequently Asked Questions</a></h3> <h3><a name="faq">Frequently Asked Questions</a></h3>
<ol> <ol>
<li><a href="#1">What is the FreeBSD/PowerPC project?</a></li> <li><a href="#1">How can I install FreeBSD/ppc</a></li>
<li><a href="#2">What hardware are you targeting?</a></li> <li><a href="#2">Where can I find packages for FreeBSD/ppc?</a></li>
<li><a href="#3">What is the current status?</a></li> <li><a href="#3">Who should I contact?</a></li>
<li><a href="#4">How can I acquire FreeBSD/PowerPC?</a></li>
<li><a href="#5">Who should I contact?</a></li>
</ol> </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 <p>FreeBSD/ppc is in HEAD branch of the FreeBSD CVS repository. However
to computers with the PowerPC processor, most notably there is an ISO image available for download
recent Macintosh&reg; computers.</p> <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) <p>Courtesy of Peter Grehan and Tilman Linneweh, you can find some packages
Apple Macintoshes. Other platforms, such as older <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/ppc_pkgs/">here</a> and
Power Mac&reg;s and non-Apple computers using Open Firmware, <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~arved/packages_powerpc/">here</a>.
are expected to be targeted later on. </p>
<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 <p><a href="mailto:grehan@FreeBSD.org">Peter Grehan</a> is the project
to single-user mode.</p> lead. Contact him if you can contribute code. If you just want
<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
to know about the status of this project, check this page to know about the status of this project, check this page
regularly or join the 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=" <h3><a name="hardware">Supported Hardware</a></h3>
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> <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> <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"> <li><a href="http://e-www.motorola.com/brdata/PDFDB/docs/MPCFPE32B.pdf">
PowerPC chip documentation</a></li> 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"> <li><a href="http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1061.html">
"TN1061: Fundamentals of OpenFirmware, Part 1 - The User "TN1061: Fundamentals of OpenFirmware, Part 1 - The User
Interface"</a></li> Interface"</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/hardware/hardware2.html"> <li><a href="http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/hardware/hardware2.html">
Apple hardware developer docs</a></li> Apple hardware developer docs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://sourceware.cygnus.com/psim/"> <li><a href="http://sourceware.cygnus.com/psim/">psim</a> - A PowerPC
psim</A> - A PowerPC simulator, available as a simulator, available as a FreeBSD port at
FreeBSD port at <A HREF="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/emulators.html#psim-freebsd-5.2">/usr/ports/emulators/psim-freebsd</A>.</li> <a href="http://www.freshports.org/?package=psim-freebsd">emulators/psim-freebsd</a></li>
</ul> </ul>
<h3><a name="links">Other Links of Interest</a></h3> <h3><a name="links">Other Links of Interest</a></h3>
<ul> <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.NetBSD.org/Ports/macppc/">NetBSD/macppc</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.OpenBSD.org/macppc.html">OpenBSD/macppc</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.OpenBSD.org/macppc.html">OpenBSD/macppc</a></li>
</ul> </ul>
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