From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 30 01:17:00 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 04100E3B for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 01:17:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from d.mail.sonic.net (d.mail.sonic.net [64.142.111.50]) (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 E0ABF206C for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 01:16:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aurora.physics.berkeley.edu (aurora.Physics.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.117.67]) (authenticated bits=0) by d.mail.sonic.net (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id s6U1GpeX024642 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:16:52 -0700 Message-ID: <53D84783.3010803@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:16:51 -0700 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vt(4) support on SPARC References: <53CC1C85.5050809@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <53CC1C85.5050809@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sonic-CAuth: UmFuZG9tSVaOu68CK6WjmbAIYoNW6xIbnW6awzMNld3x9XWbGwKwXa9R5SiHji6cl03XR1eZYiYjdeOhmc9O8i9jg/TOUV3kH6X9+F/bWsE= X-Sonic-ID: C;JLHaL4cX5BGItxDl54E5FQ== M;8EQMMIcX5BGItxDl54E5FQ== X-Spam-Flag: No X-Sonic-Spam-Details: 0.0/5.0 by cerberusd X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 01:17:00 -0000 I haven't heard back from anyone. Since the changes to ofwfb are now in and the changes to the sparc64 kernel configuration don't affect default behavior, I will commit this at the end of the week so it can be tested more casually unless someone objects. -Nathan On 07/20/14 12:46, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > I'm hoping to collect test results for the patch at > http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/vt-sparc64.diff > > It does the following things: > 1. Adds vt to SPARC64 GENERIC as a run-time selectable feature. > syscons is still the default, but you can try vt by setting > kern.vty=vt at the boot loader. > 2. Fix some bitrot in the sparc64 support in ofwfb, so that it > compiles again on SPARC. > 3. Removes some of the PCI-focused aspects of ofwfb and adds some > other improvements to it (not all of them SPARC-related). > > This should work at least on all systems currently using machfb(4) and > provides a working graphics console on my Ultra 5. It likely doesn't > work on systems using creatorfb(4) -- I believe that will require a > different driver -- though I would very much appreciate test results > on such systems. It may also work on some systems that currently have > no working graphics console at all. > > So, if you have a SPARC system with video hardware, I would really > appreciate it if you could give this a try. If you don't set kern.vty > at the loader prompt, it should not change anything. > > If you try it on a non-Mach64 system and it provides a working > console, please let me know. If you try it and it does not work (no > matter what kind of graphics hardware), please also let me know and > tell me what kind of graphics card you have and send the output of > "ofwdump -p screen". Any other comments or test results would also be > appreciated. > -Nathan > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >