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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional-Based Extension//EN"
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/share/xml/xhtml10-freebsd.dtd" [
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD/ppc Project">
<!ENTITY email 'freebsd-ppc'>
]>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>&title;</title>
<cvs:keyword xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS">$FreeBSD$</cvs:keyword>
</head>
<body class="navinclude.developers">
<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="#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>
<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="status">Status</a></h3>
<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>
<hr noshade="noshade"/>
<h3><a name="news">Latest News</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>05 January, 2011</strong>: Support for the Sony Playstation 3
has been committed to SVN.</li>
<li><strong>13 July, 2010</strong>: Support for the powerpc64 architecture
added.</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="noshade"/>
<h3><a name="faq">Frequently Asked Questions</a></h3>
<ol>
<li><a href="#1">How can I install FreeBSD/ppc</a></li>
<li><a href="#3">How to use ports on FreeBSD/ppc?</a></li>
<li><a href="#4">Should I install powerpc or powerpc64?</a></li>
<li><a href="#5">Who should I contact?</a></li>
</ol>
<h4><a name="1">How can I install FreeBSD/ppc?</a></h4>
<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></p>
<h4><a name="3">How to use ports on FreeBSD/ppc?</a></h4>
<p>The easy way to use ports on FreeBSD 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">Should I install powerpc or powerpc64?</a></h4>
<p>The powerpc64 port provides a 64-bit kernel and userland, and is supported
on all 64-bit CPUs. Users of 32-bit CPUs (G3, G4) must use the 32-bit
powerpc platform, users of 64-bit CPUs that support 32-bit operating
systems (G5) have a choice, and users of 64-bit CPUs that do not (Cell)
must use powerpc64. For those users with a choice, powerpc64 provides
some additional features (the ability to use more than 2 GB of RAM and
ZFS support) while having slightly worse ports support due to being
a newer and less common architecture. Like other 64-bit platforms,
FreeBSD/powerpc64 supports running 32-bit binaries as well as 64-bit ones.
</p>
<h4><a name="5">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
to know about the status of this project, check this page
regularly or join the
<a href="#list">FreeBSD/ppc mailing list</a>.</p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/>
<h3><a name="hardware">Supported Hardware</a></h3>
<p>The FreeBSD/ppc port should run on any New-World Apple machine (any Apple
machine with a built-in USB port), as well as the Sony Playstation 3. A
port to IBM pSeries hardware is in progress. People reported FreeBSD runs
on following machines:</p>
<table class="tblbasic">
<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 DV Special Edition</td>
<td><a href="mailto:webmaster@machowto.com">David S. Besade</a>
(<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/local/dmesg.ppc">dmesg</a>)</td>
<td>None</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>
<tr>
<td>Apple</td>
<td>Aluminium Powerbook G4 1.5 GHz</td>
<td><a href="mailto:toa@pop.agri.ch">Andreas Tobler</a></td>
<td>None</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Apple</td>
<td>PowerMac G5</td>
<td></td>
<td>FreeBSD 8.0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Apple</td>
<td>iMac G5</td>
<td></td>
<td>FreeBSD 8.0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Apple</td>
<td>Xserve G5</td>
<td></td>
<td>FreeBSD 8.1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Apple</td>
<td>PowerMac G5 (late 2005)</td>
<td></td>
<td>FreeBSD 8.1</td>
</tr>
</table>
<hr noshade="noshade"/>
<h3><a name="list">FreeBSD/ppc mailing list</a></h3>
<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>
<hr noshade="noshade"/>
<h3><a name="issues">Known Issues</a></h3>
<ul>
<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 Open Firmware 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>
</ul>
<hr noshade="noshade"/>
<h3><a name="doc">Documentation, White Papers, Utilities</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.freescale.com/files/product/doc/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="https://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/#technotes/tn/tn1061.html">
"TN1061: Fundamentals of Open Firmware, Part 1 - The User
Interface"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/#technotes/tn/tn1062.html">
"TN1062: Fundamentals of Open Firmware, Part 2 - The Device
Tree"</a></li>
<li><a href="http://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/navigation/">
Apple hardware developer docs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080514111646/http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2004.html">
"TN2004: Debugging Open Firmware Using Telnet"</a></li>
<li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080509173539/http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2023.html">
"TN2023: Open Firmware Ethernet Debugging II - Telnet Downloading"
</a></li>
<li><a href="http://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/#technotes/tn/tn2001.html">
"TN2001: Running Files from a Hard Drive in Open Firmware"</a></li>
<li><a href="http://sourceware.org/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://wiki.freebsd.org/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>
</body>
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