Re: Netbooting mac mini g4

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Jun 20,  2:17pm, macallan%netbsd.org@localhost (Michael) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Netbooting mac mini g4

| Hello,
| 
| On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:37:08 +0000 (UTC)
| christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) wrote:
| 
| > In the process I discovered that the radeon driver is broken (I think
| > we should remove it from generic until it is fixed; it is bad to
| > supply a generic that does not work)
| 
| That's why it's removed in -8. It's in -current to catch issues like
| that, we found and fixed a few others lately.

Is it though? I tried both and 8 kernel and a 7 kernel and they did not
boot?

| Is that a 1st generation Mini? As in PowerMac10,1?

I sent the dmesg in the mail.

| What type of connection do you use - DVI or VGA-with-adaptor?

DVI->HDMI->VGA

| Also, what's the failure - just a black screen or something else?

Black screen, but I don't think that the host fully boots.

| I fixed it for 2nd generation Minis but things are wired slightly
| different there and I suspect it's not handled correctly by Xorg either.
| VGA /should/ work, but I can't find the correct wiring for DVI on 1st
| generation Minis without the hardware.

Thanks, is there any way I can help? How do we debug this?

christos