Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 15:58:28 -0500 From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> To: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: head -r333897 (usefdt and old PowerMac) questions Message-ID: <22de0f24-7ad6-56e3-64a6-92ca92eb0519@blastwave.org> In-Reply-To: <45471716-70BE-462B-A1BF-778311F083CE@yahoo.com> References: <A2FF3374-0C72-42E0-AB1D-A4BE85EDA551@yahoo.com> <9390ba5a-aa1c-c3be-3c2b-aa2e4e6f0643@freebsd.org> <DF7D1B60-BE49-4EC7-9927-F44CDACD4870@yahoo.com> <749E008B-8E4A-4252-A3C9-D03972B963B7@yahoo.com> <1a922d91-aad5-a88c-0bd9-5f59d6b48b37@blastwave.org> <F5FE65BB-C3BA-4186-A6F4-585FA536B54A@yahoo.com> <41a47de2-76a8-c7d3-35fb-1f958d40af5b@blastwave.org> <45471716-70BE-462B-A1BF-778311F083CE@yahoo.com>
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On 12/10/18 4:48 AM, Mark Millard wrote: > On 2018-Dec-10, at 00:52, Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote: >> On 12/10/18 3:33 AM, Mark Millard wrote: >>> On 2018-Dec-9, at 22:07, Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote: >>>> On 12/10/18 12:35 AM, Mark Millard via freebsd-ppc wrote: >>>>> On 2018-May-19, at 21:27, Mark Millard <marklmi26-fbsd at yahoo.com> wrote: >>>>>> On 2018-May-19, at 9:14 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote: >>>>>>> You need to wait for one more patch. With that, usefdt=1 is confirmed >>>>>>> working on PowerMac 11,2 (like the quad core). You must use vt, not sc, but everything ... caveat is that bge0 and bge1 may swap numbers.>>>>>> kern.vty=vt >>>> I feel a bit out of the loop here. I don't know what that "kern.vty=sc" >>>> is for at all. Perhaps kernel video tty = sugar coated? Just a guess. >>> See: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons >>> >> >> Will do. >> > I used an odd mix of -r341766 and an older vmparam.h by content. > The combination likely has never been built by an official FreeBSD > build machine for public access, not even potentially for the > continuous integration builds. Ah .. I see. "Official" FreeBSD build machine. > Another difference may sometimes be that I normally build with kernel > debugging disabled for things like witness (but symbols not stripped). > This is not the default for head/ based builds. Right. Makes sense. > There are other source differences as well: > > # svnlite status /usr/src/ | sort > ? /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC-DBG . . . > M /usr/src/usr.bin/top/machine.c > Lots of good stuff there. >> Minor note here is that 341781 boots just fine without any smp issues : > > Was that via just usefdt=1 ? Both ways of booting? * always * >> dclarke@eris$ uname -aU >> FreeBSD eris 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT r341781 GENERIC powerpc 1200086 >> >> . . . >> >> Built from https://svn.freebsd.org/base/head/ which should be 'official'. >> dclarke@eris$ uname -a FreeBSD eris 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT r341781 GENERIC powerpc dclarke@eris$ uptime 8:55PM up 12:09, 1 user, load averages: 0.01, 0.10, 0.13 dclarke@eris$ sysctl kern.smp.cpus hw.ncpu kern.smp.cpus: 4 hw.ncpu: 4 dclarke@eris$ Seems to be running well. > I'm the one more likely to be doing builds based on odd vintage > mixes and other source modifications if I understand right. I was > expecting your builds to be (closer to) matching an official build > on an official server. I count continuous integration builds > seen via ci.freebsd.org as official and publicly accessible. > Well I am interested in the official 12.0 release being able to run on ye old Apple PowerMac G5. Dennis
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