Subject: Re: port-macppc/24778: netbsd/macppc won't book on PowerBook G4 (12-inch DVI)
To: Aymeric Vincent <vincent@labri.fr>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@wasabisystems.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/29/2004 11:21:33
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 09:54:57AM +0200, Aymeric Vincent wrote:
> Maybe we should stop relying only on the open firmware to determine the 
> console, since newer open firmwares don't seem to provide enough 
> information in this respect. In particular, if we have an akbd, we 
> should use it as console no matter what the openfirmware says.

Aren't the akbd entries in OFW even if there is no apparent ADB
keyboard?

Another option is to start reading the system name and build a
capabilities table in the kernel to work from.  We could then say
that all PowerBook systems use ADB, or some such.  I had some hacks
in a local tree to do that, but they got eaten by a hungry fsck.

-allen

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