From owner-freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Thu Nov 10 21:25:06 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 93697C3AD8B for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:25:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markmi@dsl-only.net) Received: from asp.reflexion.net (outbound-mail-210-42.reflexion.net [208.70.210.42]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2BFFD21D for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:25:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markmi@dsl-only.net) Received: (qmail 26901 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2016 21:18:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rtc-sm-01.app.dca.reflexion.local) (10.81.150.1) by 0 (rfx-qmail) with SMTP; 10 Nov 2016 21:18:49 -0000 Received: by rtc-sm-01.app.dca.reflexion.local (Reflexion email security v8.10.1) with SMTP; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 16:18:29 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 16436 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2016 21:18:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iron2.pdx.net) (69.64.224.71) by 0 (rfx-qmail) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 10 Nov 2016 21:18:28 -0000 Received: from [192.168.1.106] (c-76-115-7-162.hsd1.or.comcast.net [76.115.7.162]) by iron2.pdx.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 024AEEC881E; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:18:23 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Millard Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 10.1 \(3251\)) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 11 on PowerBook G4 Message-Id: Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:18:23 -0800 To: tamiji@me.com, Justin Hibbits , FreeBSD PowerPC ML X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3251) 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: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:25:06 -0000 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