Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 21:35:35 -0800 From: Mark Millard <marklmi26-fbsd@yahoo.com> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: head -r333897 (usefdt and old PowerMac) questions Message-ID: <749E008B-8E4A-4252-A3C9-D03972B963B7@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <DF7D1B60-BE49-4EC7-9927-F44CDACD4870@yahoo.com> References: <A2FF3374-0C72-42E0-AB1D-A4BE85EDA551@yahoo.com> <9390ba5a-aa1c-c3be-3c2b-aa2e4e6f0643@freebsd.org> <DF7D1B60-BE49-4EC7-9927-F44CDACD4870@yahoo.com>
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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 should work out of the box once that patch is in. The only caveat is that bge0 and bge1 may swap numbers. >> -Nathan > > Good to know. Thanks. > > "You must use vt, not sc": does this mean changing to not > include sc in the kernel at all? Or will /boot/loader.conf > having: > > kern.vty=vt > > be enough despite sc also being present? > . . . Just an FYI about my from-source builds based on devel/powerpc64-xtoolchain-gcc and the reverted-to-before /usr/src/sys/powerpc/include/vmparam.h -r334498 . With the recent activity I jumped from -r340287 to -r341766 . It booted fine as smp. I tried booting with "set usefdt=1" and the ethernet connection moved to the other plugin position. It booted fine as smp. That was with /boot/loader.conf having: kern.vty=sc (At the time I did not remember this note of yours or which way kern.vty was set.) However I've not used X11 or such in years, just the console and ssh sessions. Since I do not know what was supposed to be wrong if sc was used, all I can say is that I do not appear to have run into it so far. === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar)help
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