Re: recent rasops commits vs. macppc

[Rin Okuyama <rokuyama.rk%gmail.com@localhost>]

Maybe it's time to remove all non-32bit access to fb.
I expect it is not a very hard work for now ;-).

PS
I ordered Mac Mini G4, although serial console is hopeless...

Thanks,
rin

On 2019/08/03 8:58, Rin Okuyama wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> I'm so sorry for the breakage. I'll investigate it.
> Font width is 8?
>
> I appreciate a lot if someone could provide dmesg and
> backtrace when wscons is enabled after boot with serial
> console.
>
> PS
> I decided to buy my own macppc machine. Could anyone
> recommend me a model of
>
> - serial console capable
> - newer and smaller as possible
>
> Thanks,
> rin
>
> On 2019/08/03 8:07, Michael wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just tried to update a few macppc machines and found that every one
> > of them crashes early during kernel startup, before the copyright is
> > printed. Rolling back dev/rasops/ to july 1st allowed them to boot.
> >
> > I didn't have time to investigate further but, as a data point, macppc
> > early console uses 8bit colour and a bitmap font, scribbling into a
> > firmware-provided framebuffer.
> >
> > have fun
> > Michael