Re: G5 powermacs

[Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

> Hmm, so something goes wrong there, which is weird since on macppc we
> scribble into video memory from the beginning ( wsdisplay_cnattach()
> before even printing the kernel copyright ). IIRC ofb has code to remap
> video memory with the G bit cleared ( to allow out of order writes and
> write combining, which speeds things up ) via BAT, which the ppc970
> doesn't have - I doubt it knows that, it hasn't been touched in ages.
> So, to see how far we actually get, you could leave out both genfb and
> ofb. This will leave you with the early kernel console, which may or
> may not work properly later on, but should at least show how far we'd
> get otherwise.

Oh, I've already tried that, no ofb and no genfb, and in that case I
seem to recall that I got the "OF_QUIESCE finished" message, and no
further output.

Regards,

- Håvard