Hi, On 2021-10-19 21:26:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > My notes say > > Currently running OSX 10.4.11 (last release of Tiger); although 10.5 > Leopard > supports PPCs, it refuses to install if CPU speed < 867MHz, well beyond > the > Cube's ability. Wikipedia does suggest it's possible to run Leopard, > but... > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Leopard#Usage_on_unsupported_hardware > > I'm not sure that I have install media for 10.5 anymore, either --- ISTR > some machine's CD drive failing and not letting me get the CD back out. > If I did have it, I don't think there'd be a way to update past 10.5.0 > (surely Apple no longer has those updaters on-line?), so on the whole > I think that path is a nonstarter.
That does indeed sound like a nonstarter. > I do have 10.5 running on an old G4 PowerMac, but that machine is (a) > noisy (b) power-hungry and (c) getting flaky, so I'm uneager to spin up > a buildfarm animal on it. Understandable. > As with the HPPA, a potential compromise is to spin up some newer > BSD-ish system on it. I agree that OSX 10.4 is uninteresting as a > software platform, but I'd like to keep 32-bit PPC represented in > the farm. I assume the reason 32-bit PPC is interesting is that it's commonly run big endian? I wonder when it'll be faster to run 32bit ppc via qemu than natively :) Greetings, Andres Freund
