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(dclarke@blastwave.org@174.118.245.214) by 0 with ESMTPA; 10 Dec 2018 20:58:29 -0000 Subject: Re: head -r333897 (usefdt and old PowerMac) questions To: Mark Millard Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org References: <9390ba5a-aa1c-c3be-3c2b-aa2e4e6f0643@freebsd.org> <749E008B-8E4A-4252-A3C9-D03972B963B7@yahoo.com> <1a922d91-aad5-a88c-0bd9-5f59d6b48b37@blastwave.org> <41a47de2-76a8-c7d3-35fb-1f958d40af5b@blastwave.org> <45471716-70BE-462B-A1BF-778311F083CE@yahoo.com> From: Dennis Clarke Message-ID: <22de0f24-7ad6-56e3-64a6-92ca92eb0519@blastwave.org> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 15:58:28 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/64.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <45471716-70BE-462B-A1BF-778311F083CE@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 209996E8FB X-Spamd-Result: default: False [2.55 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_FIVE(0.00)[5]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.70)[0.697,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[blastwave.org]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.65)[0.647,0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[mx1.netsolmail.net]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[55.115.17.209.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.0]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.23)[0.227,0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[yahoo.com]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:19871, ipnet:209.17.112.0/21, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(0.09)[ipnet: 209.17.112.0/21(0.30), asn: 19871(0.24), country: US(-0.09)] X-Rspamd-Server: mx1.freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 20:58:40 -0000 On 12/10/18 4:48 AM, Mark Millard wrote: > On 2018-Dec-10, at 00:52, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> On 12/10/18 3:33 AM, Mark Millard wrote: >>> On 2018-Dec-9, at 22:07, Dennis Clarke wrote: >>>> On 12/10/18 12:35 AM, Mark Millard via freebsd-ppc wrote: >>>>> On 2018-May-19, at 21:27, Mark Millard wrote: >>>>>> On 2018-May-19, at 9:14 PM, Nathan Whitehorn 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