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  <h3>General Information</h3>
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  <h3><a name="intro">Introduction</a></h3>
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  <p>The FreeBSD/ppc project pages contain information about the FreeBSD
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    port to the PowerPC&reg; architecture.  As with the port itself, these
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    pages are still a work in progress.</p>
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  <h3><a name="toc">Table Of Contents</a></h3>
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  <ul>
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  <ul>
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    <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
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    <li><a href="#status">Status</a></li>
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    <li><a href="#news">Latest News</a></li>
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    <li><a href="#news">Latest News</a></li>
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    <li><a href="#faq">Port FAQs</a></li>
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    <li><a href="#faq">Port FAQs</a></li>
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    <li><a href="#hardware">Supported Hardware</a></li>
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    <li><a href="#hardware">Supported Hardware</a></li>
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  <h3><a name="intro">Introduction</a></h3>
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  <h3><a name="status">Status</a></h3>
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  <p>The FreeBSD/ppc project pages contain information about the FreeBSD
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    port to the PowerPC&reg; architecture.  As with the port itself, these
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    pages are still a work in progress.</p>
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  <p>The FreeBSD/ppc port is still a Tier-2 platform.  That means it is
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  <p>The FreeBSD/ppc port is still a
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    <a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html">
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    Tier 2</a> platform.  That means it is
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    not being fully supported by our security officer, release engineers and
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    not being fully supported by our security officer, release engineers and
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    toolchain maintainers.<p>
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    toolchain maintainers.<p>
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  <h3><a name="news">Latest News</a></h3>
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  <h3><a name="news">Latest News</a></h3>
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    <li><strong>25 June, 2005</strong>: This page has been
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    <li><strong>03 March, 2008</strong>: Support for Freescale&reg;
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      significantly updated.</li>
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      PowerQUICC III MPC85XX family system-on-chip development boards
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      has been committed into CVS.</li>
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    <li><strong>27 February, 2008</strong>: FreeBSD 7.0 is the first
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      release to officially support the FreeBSD/ppc port.</li>
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  <h4><a name="1">How can I install FreeBSD/ppc?</a></h4>
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  <h4><a name="1">How can I install FreeBSD/ppc?</a></h4>
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  <p>There are ISO images available for download
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  <p>ISO images of FreeBSD &rel.current; suitable for New-World Macs are
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    <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/ppc_iso">here</a>.
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    available for download, for details of how to obtain these see the
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    Latest 7.0-CURRENT ISO image can be downloaded
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    <a href="&base;/releases/&rel.current;R/announce.html">release announcement.</a>
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    <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/ppc_iso/latest.iso">here</a>.
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    Please follow instructions given
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    Please follow instructions given
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    <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/iso_install.txt">here</a>.</p>
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    <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/iso_install.txt">here</a>.</p>
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  <h3><a name="list">FreeBSD/ppc mailing list</a></h3>
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  <h3><a name="list">FreeBSD/ppc mailing list</a></h3>
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  <p>To subscribe to this list, send mail to
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  <p>To subscribe to this list, send mail to <tt class="EMAIL">
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    <a href="mailto:freebsd-ppc-subscribe@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-ppc-subscribe@FreeBSD.org</a>
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    &#60;<a href="mailto:freebsd-ppc-subscribe@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-ppc-subscribe@FreeBSD.org</a>&#62;</tt>
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    or visit
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    <a href="http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc">mailman
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    <a href="http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc">mailman
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    interface</a>.</p>
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    interface</a>.</p>
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    <li>No AltiVec support yet.</li>
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    <li>No AltiVec support yet.</li>
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    <li>G5 CPUs are unsupported.</li>
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    <li>SMP is not yet supported.</li>
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    <li>On-board BMAC+ ethernet does not work.  There is a work-in-progress
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    <li>On-board BMAC+ ethernet does not work.  There is a work-in-progress
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      bm(4) driver available on Peter Grehan's personal page
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      bm(4) driver available on Peter Grehan's personal page
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      <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/">here</a> (see if_bm.c and
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      <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/">here</a> (see if_bm.c and

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