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- Clarify that latest FreeBSD/ppc ISO image is 7.0-CURRENT.

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- Add a note saying that grehan's and arved's packages are now outdated.
- Add a note about portsnap being the preferred way to use ports on FreeBSD/ppc.
- Remove note about toolchain patches no longer necessary on FreeBSD/ppc.
- Fix a link in amd64.sgml.

Approved by:	simon
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Florent Thoumie 2006-01-09 22:01:15 +00:00
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" [
<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/platforms/amd64.sgml,v 1.12 2005/05/10 19:22:55 pav Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/platforms/amd64.sgml,v 1.13 2005/10/04 19:43:48 hrs Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD/amd64 Project">
<!ENTITY email 'freebsd-amd64'>
<!ENTITY % navincludes SYSTEM "../includes.navdevelopers.sgml"> %navincludes;
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Uniprocessor and Multiprocessor mode.</p>
<p>The AMD64 platform is currently a <a
href="&base;/../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html">Tier
href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html">Tier
1</a> FreeBSD platform.</p>
<h3>FreeBSD/amd64 Specific Resources</h3>

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" [
<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/platforms/ppc.sgml,v 1.16 2005/10/15 08:51:21 blackend Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/platforms/ppc.sgml,v 1.17 2005/10/18 10:26:28 flz Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD/ppc Project">
<!ENTITY email 'freebsd-ppc'>
<!ENTITY % navincludes SYSTEM "../includes.navdevelopers.sgml"> %navincludes;
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<ol>
<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>
<li><a href="#3">How to use ports on FreeBSD/ppc?</a></li>
<li><a href="#4">Who should I contact?</a></li>
</ol>
<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 ISO image can be downloaded
Latest 7.0-CURRENT ISO image can be downloaded
<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/ppc_iso/latest.iso">here</a>.
Please follow instructions given
<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/iso_install.txt">here</a>.</p>
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<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>.
Please note that these packages are now quite outdated. If possible, you
should use ports instead.</p>
<h4><a name="3">Who should I contact?</a></h4>
<h4><a name="3">How to use ports on FreeBSD/ppc?</a></h4>
<p>The easy way to use ports on FreeBSD since 6.0-RELEASE is to use portsnap.
Refer to the Handbook if you need assistance to
<a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html">use
the Ports Collection</a>.</p>
<h4><a name="4">Who should I contact?</a></h4>
<p><a href="mailto:grehan@FreeBSD.org">Peter Grehan</a> is the project
leader. Contact him if you can contribute code. If you just want
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<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>
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