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Update/rearrange the powerpc status page.

Contributed by: Gavin Atkinson
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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 1.19 2006/08/19 21:20:40 hrs Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/platforms/ppc.sgml,v 1.20 2007/02/02 07:41:09 joel Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD/ppc Project">
<!ENTITY email 'freebsd-ppc'>
<!ENTITY % navinclude.developers "INCLUDE">
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<html>
&header;
<h3>General Information</h3>
<h3>Introduction</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>
<h3>Table Of Contents</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="#status">Status</a></li>
<li><a href="#news">Latest News</a></li>
<li><a href="#faq">Port FAQs</a></li>
<li><a href="#hardware">Supported Hardware</a></li>
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<li><a href="#links">Other links of interest</a></li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="status">Status</a></h3>
<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
<p>The FreeBSD/ppc port is still a
<a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html">
Tier 2</a> platform. That means it is
not being fully supported by our security officer, release engineers and
toolchain maintainers.<p>
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<h3><a name="news">Latest News</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>25 June, 2005</strong>: This page has been
significantly updated.</li>
<li><strong>03 March, 2008</strong>: Support for Freescale&reg;
PowerQUICC III MPC85XX family system-on-chip development boards
has been committed into CVS.</li>
<li><strong>27 February, 2008</strong>: FreeBSD 7.0 is the first
release to officially support the FreeBSD/ppc port.</li>
</ul>
<hr noshade>
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<h4><a name="1">How can I install FreeBSD/ppc?</a></h4>
<p>There are ISO images available for download
<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/ppc_iso">here</a>.
Latest 7.0-CURRENT ISO image can be downloaded
<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/ppc_iso/latest.iso">here</a>.
<p>ISO images of FreeBSD &rel.current; suitable for New-World Macs are
available for download, for details on how to obtain these see the
<a href="&base;/releases/&rel.current;R/announce.html">release announcement.</a>
Please follow instructions given
<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/iso_install.txt">here</a>.</p>
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<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
<p>To subscribe to this list, send an email to <tt class="EMAIL">
&#60;<a href="mailto:freebsd-ppc-subscribe@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-ppc-subscribe@FreeBSD.org</a>&#62;</tt>
or visit the
<a href="http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc">mailman
interface</a>.</p>
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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