Re: NetBSD-7.0 boots OK and NetBSD-8.0 hangs/crashes during boot on a MacBook7,1

["Greg A. Woods" <woods%planix.ca@localhost>]

At Mon, 6 Jul 2020 23:53:02 +0900, Rin Okuyama <rokuyama.rk%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
Subject: Re: NetBSD-7.0 boots OK and NetBSD-8.0 hangs/crashes during boot on a MacBook7,1
>
> It seems that stride of framebuffer is not correctly set.
>
> Your laptop has an NVIDIA GPU, doesn't it? If so, nouveaufb(4) is used
> instead of genfb(4), which is normally used when booted from UEFI. It
> should be worth trying

Yes, indeed, it has an NVIDIA GeForce 320M.

> 	userconf disable nouveau*
>
> for UEFI bootloader.

Oh, that sounded so very promising!

However unfortunately it made not one bit of difference.

Thank you for the idea though, and also thank you for pointing out the
alternate framebuffer driver that might also be worth looking into.

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