From owner-freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Sun Sep 18 09:04:36 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5191FBDF33F for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:04:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rleigh@codelibre.net) Received: from auth.a.painless.aa.net.uk (auth.a.painless.aa.net.uk [90.155.4.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 218F081F for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:04:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rleigh@codelibre.net) Received: from 3.d.6.3.9.4.6.0.7.f.9.3.2.9.9.6.d.b.d.d.0.6.8.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa ([2001:8b0:860:ddbd:6992:39f7:649:36d3]) by a.painless.aa.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1blY1a-00059p-2S; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:04:34 +0100 Subject: Re: Installer problems with 11.0-RC3 To: Justin Hibbits References: <725c6225-c7bf-f88f-d8e2-b5f9a02bcfe8@codelibre.net> <20160917184649.35d9a9ab@zhabar.knownspace> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML From: Roger Leigh Message-ID: <88b054f6-ae0b-dc32-8d54-016964a2cea8@codelibre.net> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:04:19 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160917184649.35d9a9ab@zhabar.knownspace> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:04:36 -0000 On 17/09/2016 23:46, Justin Hibbits wrote: > On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 23:39:41 +0000 > Roger Leigh wrote: > >> Up until now, my G4 Mac Mini has been running 10.3-RELEASE. Today, I >> tried the 11.0-RC3 installer. Two issues noted: >> >> 1) The colours in the installer are different than the PC installer. >> The background is a mid brown with yellow text. An issue with the >> console framebuffer? >> >> 2) It won't boot after the installer finished. >> Invalid memory access at %SRR0: 018011f0 %SRR1: 00003030 > > I just fixed the second issue, which should be going into the next ISO > (RC4? Final? Not sure at this point), but the initial commit was to > head at r305894, and finally merged to 11.0 (by way of stable/11) in > r305904 if you're curious. Super, thanks. I'll retry this with the next ISO release. > Regarding the framebuffer colors, I believe that's a known issue. I > know I've run into it. It may be video card specific (ATI vs NVidia), > but I'm not sure. OK. It's an ATI in this machine. Likely an endianness issue? Thanks, Roger