FreeBSD/ppc 6.0-BETA1 isos

[David Leimbach]

On Jul 18, 2005, at 3:20 PM, Peter Grehan wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
>
>> The last 6.0 ISO I tried would panic if I tried to disable  
>> syscons.   As such, I have to plug a USB keyboard into my latop  
>> and also do the  "skipslot" thingy to get it recognized instead of  
>> my bluetooth.
>> Does this one have any improvement in any of the above areas? :)
>>
>
>  Alas not :(
>
>  I haven't looked into the ofw console crash for a while, but it's  
> possible that it's either a) we're calling into open firmware with  
> a virtually mapped stack, or b) the SPRG0-4 registers aren't being  
> saved/restored during the call. NetBSD avoids both of those, though  
> in theory a) should be OK.
>
>  I'm hoping that the upcoming syscons kbdmux stuff will fix the  
> early probe of the pretend Bluetooth usb kbd/mouse.
>
> later,

Cool, on my personal todo list is to get an ADB driver going on  
FreeBSD if no one beats me to it.  I've got other projects in the  
foreground and a pile of dayjob work to do too.

Dave

>
> Peter.
>