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Date:      Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:10:18 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
Cc:        powerpc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] Switch ofw_console(4) to callout(9)
Message-ID:  <20140829161017.GA16979@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <540091D5.3050203@freebsd.org>
References:  <1899860.9mUAFU02PZ@ralph.baldwin.cx> <20140828064431.GA22415@FreeBSD.org> <5F43E6EA-DE77-404A-B541-885B0CA05EAE@FreeBSD.org> <540091D5.3050203@freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 07:44:37AM -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> On 08/28/14 18:14, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Aug 28, 2014, at 2:44 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> > > What are the exact test steps that would be useful for you?
> > 
> > Just making sure it works?  I'm not sure how you force it as the console
> > device or if it's just a matter of enabling it in /etc/ttys and then
> > making sure you can interact with it ok as a console.
> 
> You can test it by setting hw.syscons.disable=1 if you are using syscons.
> I'm not sure if there's an equivalent for vt. It hasn't really worked right
> on PPC for some time, however, and might work better on sparc.

I'm using vt of course.  I forgot to enable INVARIANTS, I'll rebuild, reboot
and report back.

./danfe



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