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Reflect the declining list of caveats attached to the PowerPC port. This

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page needs some work in general.
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Nathan Whitehorn 2009-10-13 14:26:50 +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 1.21 2008/06/09 19:30:50 jkois Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/platforms/ppc.sgml,v 1.22 2009/02/20 14:58:30 nwhitehorn Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD/ppc Project">
<!ENTITY email 'freebsd-ppc'>
<!ENTITY % navinclude.developers "INCLUDE">
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<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>
<p>The FreeBSD/ppc port should run on any New-World machine (any Apple
machine with a built-in USB port). People reported FreeBSD runs on
following machines:</p>
<table class="tblbasic">
<tr class="heading">
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<h3><a name="issues">Known Issues</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>No AltiVec support yet.</li>
<li>G5 CPUs are unsupported.</li>
<li>SMP is available only in -CURRENT.</li>
<li>Fdisk does not work.</li>
<li>ADB keyboards (as in Apple laptops) are supported only in -CURRENT</li>
<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>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