Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:18:23 -0800 From: Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net> To: tamiji@me.com, Justin Hibbits <jhibbits@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 11 on PowerBook G4 Message-ID: <F19A6CA2-E405-4776-A33A-AA3FC5963EF0@dsl-only.net>
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Justin Hibbits jhibbits at freebsd.org wrote on Thu Nov 10 19:31:10 UTC = 2016 > Try setting at the loader kern.vty=3Dsc, to use > syscons instead of it. The KERNCONF's GENERIC for powerpc and GENERIC64 for powerpc64 do not = include syscons: -r265868 replaced "device sc" with "device vt" for = GENERIC. As I understand for GENERIC64 such was in part because the PS3 = support was incompatible with having both syscons and vt so syscons was = dropped when vt was added (-r265871): the same sort of replacement. = These changes date back to 2014-May. (SC_OFWFB and SC_DFLT_FONT lines = were also removed when vt was added.) One of the things my personal powerpc64 (PowerMac G5) FreeBSD builds do = beyond the hack for allowing reliable 64-bit G5 booting is to disable = PS3 and enable/include syscons (sc) in addition to vt. (Nathan W. gave = me the hint to do this long ago, to address some large screen handing = issues in vt at the time if I remember right: for the large screen I = could then switch to sc (syscons) instead.) =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard markmi at dsl-only.net
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