On 6/7/06, Sanjay Lal <sanjayl@kymasys.com> wrote:
> I am very happy to report that NetBSD 3.0 has been ported to the
> PowerMac G5 and successfully boots into single user mode using the
> built in memory disk.
>

Great news! Now for those p5 eservers! :-)

> This is still very much work in progress as a lot of driver support
> is needed including drivers for the SATA controller on the G5, SMP
> support, support for the PMU to control the fans etc. I have added

While you're at it, do you think you could re-design the PMU code to
talk asynchronously to the PMU controller ? Some platforms ( eg: the
iBook ) experience PMU timeout related resets for variable size
transactions.

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~Cherry