User:Kernigh
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I had a PowerBook G4 that dual-booted Mac OS X or OpenBSD. I mostly use OpenBSD.
The hard disk had extra space for another partition, so I decided to install NetBSD/macppc there. I followed the directions to manually run pdisk and newfs, then I solved the puzzle to have the bootloader find the kernel. I began to use my NetBSD 4.0/macppc system during year 2008.
I had to use pkgsrc-2008Q2 to install modular Xorg, so that I have a working X server. That was when I began to encounter bugs. I learned that a few crucial packages in pkgsrc would always fail to build, unless I made my own custom patches. I tried to interact with the NetBSD Problem Reports, though I struggle to attach my patches to the reports.
I now have NetBSD 4.0.1 and pkgsrc-2008Q3.
The only use of my installed NetBSD/macppc system is to explore NetBSD and pkgsrc. If I would have a different machine with a different port of NetBSD, then the NetBSD system would might have more use.
Problem Reports
These are problems that I encountered. Sometimes I write a problem report, or append to a problem report, at length. I do not know the persons who fix problems, but at least I try to find workarounds or fixes for my own system.
For pkgsrc:
- graphics/MesaLib Problem Report 39359 graphics/MesaLib with "dri" fails for big-endian systems
- www/firefox3 Problem Report 39358 www/firefox3 needs asm fixes for NetBSD 4.0 powerpc
- x11/xf86-video-radeonhd (no bug report) This does not build, so I changed this dependency of meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-drivers to a comment.
For NetBSD:
- toolchain/40401 ld --gc-sections should not discard .note.netbsd.ident
Fixed problems:
- sysutils/dbus Problem Report 39105 (fixed for 2008Q4) sysutils/dbus fails to work on PowerPC (overlaps with Problem Report 40347 sysutils/dbus compilation errros (sic) - NetBSD 4.0)
Wiki Pages
- ELF Executables for PowerPC, a wiki page where I left notes, as I try to understand ELF, before I can understand the compiler bugs that cause the problem with sysutils/dbus. Eventually, I want to find the purpose of the ".fixup" ELF section, which seems specific to PowerPC.
