Re: anyone working on 64-bit PowerPC 970?

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

At 11:41 AM 1/17/2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Anyone working on the 64-bit Power or PowerPC 970 processor family, as
> used in the Mac G5 and IBM JS20 blade server?
>
> I see that the http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html says the
> PowerPC 970 and G5 are unsupported. And I don't find any reference to JS20
> with NetBSD.
>
> What needs to be done? Who can do it?
>
> (I saw a IBM PowerPC 970FX fact sheet webpage that says Wasabi Systems is
> a IBM Business Partners and is supporting the Power architecture and IBM
> PowerPC 970FX processor.)
>
> A member of my local BSD user group is interested in helping start a
> fund-raiser to help get this hardware supported.

I've been working on this on and off as I have time.  Most of this has
been in the pmap support the 64bit PTEs


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