Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 08:24:20 -0700 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net>, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 10.1-BETA3 and powerpc64/GENERIC64 PowerMac G5 with ATI Radeon X1950 support: broken at boot time now... Message-ID: <542ACB24.5070003@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <E9397AAC-8A06-4C30-8D44-6067BA17069F@dsl-only.net> References: <E9397AAC-8A06-4C30-8D44-6067BA17069F@dsl-only.net>
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What is your screen resolution? I suspect you are overflowing vt's early-boot framebuffer area. syscons is not supported on PS3, but you can remove PS3 from your kernel configuration to use it on powermacs. -Nathan On 09/29/14 03:21, Mark Millard wrote: > 10.1-BETA3 powerpc64/GENERIC64 on PowerMac G5 with a 'Chipset: "ATI Radeon X1950" (ChipID = 0x7240)' card with vt: boot text is only a couple of pixels high/wide. Unreadable. Repeat the visual pattern across the screen (across, not down). [Note: This is not an Xorg/xfce4 issue in any way.] > > And it appeared to be stopping very early every time so I've no clue what it was reporting. > > > Context (uname -a taken from a working boot context for the same SSD, see later): > > FreeBSD FBSDG5M1 10.1-BETA3 FreeBSD 10.1-BETA3 #28 r272167M: Mon Sep 29 02:34:31 PDT 2014 root@FBSDG5M1:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC64 powerpc > > Options DDB and GDB added to GENERIC64. WITH_DEBUG_FILES= WITHOUT_CLANG= WITH_DEBUG= in /etc/make.conf . DDB default script hack for dumping early-boot crash information. Added db_trace_self() call executed during first openfirmware_core call with MMU programmed. (So just before the classic before-copyright hang where OF_peer(0) fails fairly frequently.) > > (That is the same context as for the prior 10.1-BETA2 activity. 10.1-BETA2 did not have this problem for this context.) > > > > > I tried reverting to using sc in GENERIC64 using the same 5 lines or so for sc that are in GENERIC. But it got build failure: ps3fb_remap was missing because ps3_syscons.c was not compiled. > > That in turn was because sys/conf/files.powerpc listed "powerpc/ps3/ps3_syscons.c optional ps3 vt" (indicating it was not needed for syscons builds?). I changed that to "powerpc/ps3/ps3_syscons.c optional ps3 vt | ps3 sc" and tried again. > > More such sys/conf/files.powerpc and/or sys/conf/files issues showed up preventing building for sc. > > I gave up on being able to build powerpc64/GENERIC64 for sc directly and rebuilt again with vt (despite the boot results for the Radeon context). > > (I have a 10.1-BETA2 /boot/kernel.good/kernel to use in a manual unload then load /boot/kernel.good/kernel then boot sequence from from not letting the G5 time out and autoboot. 10.1-BETA3's world seems to tolerate 10.1-BETA2's kernel. Otherwise this would have been a lot messier to deal with.) > > > > A contrasting context that worked okay... GeForce 7800 GT based powerpc64/GENERIC64 PowerMac G5. > > In this case the initial variant tried was: no use of WITH_DEBUG_FILES= WITHOUT_CLANG= WITH_DEBUG= or of source code hacks for early-boot-crash information. But still adding options DDB and GDB. So... > > FreeBSD FBSDG5M0 10.1-BETA3 FreeBSD 10.1-BETA3 #2 r272167M: Mon Sep 29 01:24:54 PDT 2014 root@FBSDG5M0:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC64 powerpc > > Index: /usr/src/sys/powerpc/conf/GENERIC64 > =================================================================== > --- /usr/src/sys/powerpc/conf/GENERIC64 (revision 272167) > +++ /usr/src/sys/powerpc/conf/GENERIC64 (working copy) > @@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ > # Debugging support. Always need this: > options KDB # Enable kernel debugger support. > options KDB_TRACE # Print a stack trace for a panic. > +options DDB > +options GDB > > # Make an SMP-capable kernel by default > options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel > > > > But simply moving the earlier SSD (once rebuilt) from the Radeon PowerMac G5 (where it failed to display right or boot) to the GeForce based G5 resulted in normal text and a completed boot. > > It looks like the problem here is tied to Radeons, or possibly to the model of Radeon (X1950). I may put back the other NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT and not try to involve a PowerMac G5 Radeon in my activities for now. > > [The before-Copyright crash still happens randomly. None of this is directly about that issue.] > > > > === > Mark Millard > markmi at dsl-only.net > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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