Re: NetBSD still fails to boot on a MacBook7,1

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

At Sun, 05 Jul 2020 18:05:06 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" <woods%planix.ca@localhost> wrote:
Subject: NetBSD-7.0 boots OK and NetBSD-8.0 hangs/crashes during boot on a MacBook7,1
>
> So, in my ongoing NetBSD on a MacBook saga....
>
> NetBSD-8.2 and newer, including the most recent -current, hangs during
> boot and the kernel messages appear to have torn video:
>
>      http://www.planix.ca/~woods/macbookpro-netbsd-boot-fail.jpg

A very recent -current, 10.99.12 (2025-03-25T10:50:12Z), still fails to
set the video mode properly for this MacBook7,1 (MacBook Pro 13", ~2009)

As before:

> In any case, what might have been changed after 8.0 that broke the video
> output?  Where do I look?  Is amd64 video now the genfb(4) device code?
> Or is it still vga(4)?  If it's genfb(4), then I do see commits about
> doing anti-aliasing, and maybe the video junk I see could possibly be
> explained by such a thing.

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