Re: How the development of the macppc port happen?

[Umberto Cerrato <u.cerrato%icloud.com@localhost>]

> On 27 Nov 2021, at 12:27, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 12:04:08PM +0100, Umberto Cerrato wrote:
>> Hello, 
>> 
>> Anyone knows how the development of the macppc port happen?
> 
> Heh, can you rephrase the question? I am not sure it is clear what you
> would like to know.

Hi Martin, sure.

I would like to contribute to this port while trying to make my system as usable as possible.

> 
> But let me use this to point out that macppc has been the winner of
> the inofficial NetBSD architectures contest for quite a while, see
> the ranking at the bottom of
> 
> 	https://wiki.netbsd.org/releng/netbsd-10/
> 
> as the architectures with fewest failures in automatic test runs, and only
> in the last 2 weeks i386 caught up and now shares the same rank.
> 
> On my dual G4 quicksilver it works amazingly well, unless when it doesn't,
> that is: some updates fail when extracting sets, probably due to this machine
> using two ATA disks on the internal controller (this is
> https://gnats.netbsd.org/56375) and when updating works, the test run may
> cause a kernel lockup (https://gnats.netbsd.org/55340) which unfortunately
> does not seem to be reproducable with a LOCKDEBUG kernel.
> 
> On the other hand my G5 needs a bit of work (PRs
> https://gnats.netbsd.org/56089 and https://gnats.netbsd.org/56091
> at least, and also needs work on a full 64bit pmap, but for that the
> serial console needs to work properly first). I'll look into those
> but not before the wifi stuff is done.
> 
> Martin

Thank you for these informations.

u.