Hi Jason, what release are you trying to run.  NetBSD-4 was branched  
off before the unification of the PowePC code and the G5 should work.   
There is a driver for the on board SATA controller. The problem was  
getting the interrupt glue logic to find and configure the correct IRQ.

Unfortunately, I am out of town currently and don't have access to my  
G5.  I'll work on getting netbsd-4 and current working on the G5 once  
I am back.

Regards
Sanjay

On Nov 30, 2007, at 2:56 PM, Michael Lorenz wrote:

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> On Nov 30, 2007, at 13:36, Jason Baker wrote:
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>> I have a 1.6 Ghz PowerMac G5 and was looking to install a UNIX  
>> distro on it.  Last I heard, netbsd supported the G5 architecture  
>> but didn't support the onboard SATA controller.  Is this still the  
>> situation, or has that changed?  If it still doesn't support the  
>> SATA, are there any plans in the future to?
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> None of the active developers has G5 hardware so we don't really  
> know what works and what doesn't. CPU support is in the source tree  
> but might be broken since we unified much of the PowerPC code.  
> People have been working on SATA drivers so the G5's SATA controller  
> might just work these days.
> If you want to give it a shot please go ahead and tell us how it goes.
>
> have fun
> Michael
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