Re: PowerMacintosh G5 (PowerPC 970 CPU)

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Apr 22, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Erik Fair wrote:

> There is no mention of the Macintosh systems based on the PowerPC  
> 970 (G5) CPU in NetBSD's macppc web pages. What's the current  
> status? Whatever that status is, we should document it in both the  
> main page and the model support pages.

I have the hardware, I have a pretty good idea what's missing, I just  
need to get around to do some hacking.
So, right now things simply don't work. The kernel dies when turning  
address translation on again, as far as I can tell that's because  
we're running in bridge mode while the TLB modification instructions  
only do anything in 64bit mode. At least IBM's manual says so.

have fun
Michael

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