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<h2><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font><hr></h2> |
<h2><font color="#e00000">macppc</font><hr></h2> |
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<h3><font color="#0000e0">Supported Hardware:</font></h3> |
<h3><font color="#0000e0">Supported Hardware:</font></h3> |
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<a name="#unsup"><h3><font color=#0000e0>Unsupported Hardware:</font></h3></a> |
<a name="#unsup"><h3><font color=#0000e0>Unsupported Hardware:</font></h3></a> |
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Support for older PREP style machines has been removed; lack of |
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availability of the hardware and relatively slow speed compared to more |
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recent machines has contributed to this decision. |
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Apple PowerMac systems with a 601 processor or lack OpenFirmware |
Apple PowerMac systems with a 601 processor or lack OpenFirmware |
will likely never be supported. |
will likely never be supported. |
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must be copied onto the first HFS partition. |
must be copied onto the first HFS partition. |
It is unknown if Openfirmware can load the OpenBSD bootloader from the |
It is unknown if Openfirmware can load the OpenBSD bootloader from the |
MacOS X FFS partition. |
MacOS X FFS partition. |
See INSTALL.powerpc for more details on how to install a shared disk. |
See INSTALL.macppc for more details on how to install a shared disk. |
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<h3><font color="#0000e0">Root Drive:</font></h3> |
<h3><font color="#0000e0">Root Drive:</font></h3> |
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<p>If you are looking for to test new pre-release features, you can |
<p>If you are looking for to test new pre-release features, you can |
try one of the snapshots. |
try one of the snapshots. |
For the powerpc architecture, <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/powerpc">snapshots</a> are made available from time to time. |
For the macppc architecture, <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/macppc">snapshots</a> are made available from time to time. |
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<h3><font color="#0000e0">History:</font></h3> |
<h3><font color="#0000e0">History:</font></h3> |
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For 2.9, powerpc has moved to UVM, this change has fixed the |
For 2.9, powerpc has moved to UVM, this change has fixed the |
corrupted shared library "pmap" bug that was rather pervasive for 2.8. |
corrupted shared library "pmap" bug that was rather pervasive for 2.8. |
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For 3.0, the powerpc port has been renamed to macppc. |
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