Re: PowerPC 970 (G5) 64-bit support

[Super Bisquit <superbisquit%gmail.com@localhost>]

AFAIK, FreeBSD is the only BSD with a separate PPC64 kernel.
Why not just ask for help in building the kernel?



On 4/12/11, Dennis Ferguson <dennis.c.ferguson%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> On 11 Apr 2011, at 15:57 , Michael wrote:
>> There's already a 64bit pmap.c.
>
> I didn't know that.  I don't think it's the one in the powerpc/oea
> directory, though.
>
>     $ grep ^\#error powerpc/oea/pmap.c
>
>     #error unknown variant for pmap
>     #error PMAP_OEA64 not supported
>     #error PPC_OEA64 not supported
>
> My guesstimation was that it would minimally need the missing code
> above filled in and support for running with a 32-bit user land
> written to get a kernel to the point where there was enough code in
> there to make it worth trying to debug booting the thing.
>
> Dennis Ferguson
>
>