Re: installing on a g5

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

On Apr 16, 2014, at 3:04 PM, Christian Groessler 
<chris%groessler.org@localhost> wrote:

> On 04/15/14 23:18, Matt Thomas wrote:
>> On Apr 15, 2014, at 11:54 AM, Christian Groessler 
>> <chris%groessler.org@localhost> wrote:
>> 
>>> My machine has 3.5GB RAM.
>> NetBSD won't like that much ram.  Make sure that at most 2GB is made 
>> available.
> 
> 
> I've removed 2GB and it still hangs.
> 
> I've digged a little bit further, and it crashes in 
> sys/dev/rasops/rasops8.c(rasops8_putchar12)
> when it does the first assignment to rp[0]. rp is 0xa00a8004 and ri->ri_bits 
> is 0xa0009e04.
> 
> I assume ri->ri_bits should point to the frame buffer. How do I check if this 
> address is correct?

Sounds like a mapping for the framebuffer is missing from the kernel pmap