Re: recent rasops commits vs. macppc

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

Hi,

On 2019/08/05 1:29, Michael wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 11:29:58 +0900
> Rin Okuyama <rokuyama.rk%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
...
> > I probably found the cause of failure; new rasops allocates buffer and
> > stamp dynamically via kmem_alloc. This may not work in early stages
> > during boot.
>
> That would do it - macppc sets up a rasops console *very* early during
> kernel startup, before uvm is completely initialized. That's why there
> is a RI_NO_AUTO flag to instruct rasops not to auto-generate line
> drawing characters ( for fonts that don't have them ), which requires
> allocating memory.

Thank you for your explanation on early console of macppc. Now, I
almost believe that the patch should resolve the problem. I will
commit it if it actually works for you.

On 2019/08/05 15:20, Michael wrote:> On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 10:00:49 -0700
> Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> > > On Aug 4, 2019, at 9:29 AM, Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> > >    
> > > > Yeah, I look to forward to playing with it :-).
> > >
> > > I have a few of them, there are a few quirks you may run into. If you
> > > have questions don't hesitate to ask!
> >
> > Make sure you have a good, strong putty knife.
>
> Or something equivalent, and several of them. I opened one of mine with
> a bunch of hair pins, which wasn't fun.
> Trust me, if your Mini doesn't come with 1GB of RAM, you *will* want to
> upgrade it ( pretty much any PC2700 or 3200 DDR1 1GB DIMM will do, they
> can be found for about $20 or less on ebay ).
> For a small macppc box they can be surprisingly speedy - a 1.5GHz 7447
> is nothing to sneeze at ( of course there are faster 32bit macs
> available, but they're also much more expensive ) - but modern
> compilers like gcc 7 or clang will eat up a lot of memory, like up to
> 1GB per compiler instance. Same with the internal disk - IIRC the
> biggest disk Apple ever shipped in a G4 Mini was 80GB, and the lower
> end models had 40GB ones. There are bigger and faster options available
> for not much money.

Also, thank you for your advices. It helps me a lot. Although the
original owner says it has 1GB memory, I'd like to replace its
HDD with SSD by using, probably, an mSATA-IDE converter; after
crashing several cards, I don't trust CF or SD card so much ;-).

Thanks,
rin