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General Information

Introduction
Latest News
Port FAQs
Supported Hardware
FreeBSD/ppc mailing list
Known Issues
Documentation, White Papers, Utilities
Other links of interest

Introduction

The FreeBSD/ppc project pages contain information about the FreeBSD port to the PowerPC® architecture. As with the port itself, these pages are still a work in progress.

The FreeBSD/ppc port is still a Tier-2 platform. That means it is not being fully supported by our security officer, release engineers and toolchain maintainers.

Latest News

25 June, 2005: This page has been significantly updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I install FreeBSD/ppc
Where can I find packages for FreeBSD/ppc?
Who should I contact?

How can I install FreeBSD/ppc?

FreeBSD/ppc is in HEAD branch of the FreeBSD CVS repository. However there is an ISO image available for download here. Please follow instructions given here.

Where can I find packages for FreeBSD/ppc?

Courtesy of Peter Grehan and Tilman Linneweh, you can find some packages here and here.

Peter Grehan is the project - lead. Contact him if you can contribute code. If you just want + 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 FreeBSD/ppc mailing list.

Supported Hardware

The FreeBSD/ppc port should run on any New-World machine. People reported FreeBSD runs on following machines:

Manufacturer	Model	Submitter (optional links)	Notes
Apple	iMac G3 350 MHz	Martin Minkus	Rage 128VR
Apple	iMac G3 Revision B	Peter Grehan	Rage 3D Pro 215GP, accel disabled
Apple	eMac 700 MHz	Peter Grehan	Nvidia GeForce2 MX
Apple	Mac Mini G4 1.4 GHz	Tilman Linneweh (dmesg)	None
Apple	Powerbook G4 1.33 GHz	Peter Grehan	Nvidia GeForce G5200
Apple	Aluminium Powerbook G4 1.5 GHz	Andreas Tobler	None

FreeBSD/ppc mailing list

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Known Issues

No AltiVec support yet.
On-board BMAC+ ethernet does not work. There is a work-in-progress bm(4) driver available on Peter Grehan's personal page here (see if_bm.c and if_bmreg.h).
There is no graphical mouse cursor on console.
Fdisk does not work.
Only USB keyboards are supported.
If you have Bluetooth, there is a 'fake' OHCI port and devices created that can be used to access a wireless keyboard or mouse. Problem is, it gets probed before the fixed keyboard/mouse and is first in line to syscons. To get around this, the PCI slot associated with the problematic ohci2 can be disabled at the loader prompt:
```
OK set hint.pcib.1.skipslot=26
```
For ATI Radeon-based machines:
- A ofw syscons range check needs to be relaxed using the sysctl hw.ofwfb.relax_mmap.
- A special radeon driver is needed. You must add the following your xorg.conf into the Section "Device":
```
Option "iBookHacks" "on"
```
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 OpenFirmware prompt, give it a partition which is either non-existent, doesn't have a kernel to load, or isn't a UFS partition:
```
0 > boot hd:loader hd:0
```
At this point, you can set currdev and manually load a kernel:
```
OK set currdev=hd:14
 OK load /boot/kernel/kernel.save
```
Some patches are needed to build your own world and kernel:
- RELENG_5 (GCC 3.4.2): rs6000.c.diff and sysv4.h.diff
- HEAD (GCC 3.4.4): rs6000.c.diff and sysv4.h.diff