head -r365932 on PowerMac G5 (2 dual-core sockets): Crashes before login prompt if powerd is enabled in /etc/rc.conf

[Mark Millard]

On 2020-Sep-22, at 17:18, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2020-Sep-22, at 17:12, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2020-Sep-22, at 14:43, Brandon Bergren <bdragon at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020, at 4:27 PM, Mark Millard wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On the 2 dual-core socket G5:
>>>> 
>>>> # sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq
>>>> dev.cpu.0.freq: 2500
>>> 
>>> OK, thanks for the confirmation.
>>> 
>>> FWIW I still haven't found time to figure out what's going on with dual-processor G4. But it breaking even earlier than usual is indeed a regression over last time I tested it, where it would work until smp, at which point IIRC it would have timebase issues.
>>> 
>>> I'll burn some boot media and check mine.
>> 
>> I can not boot the G3 or any of the G4's that I have
>> now tried, including single socket ones. All die
>> immediately.
> 
> By "immediately" I mean I do not even get close to
> seeing the loader prompt. The display still shows
> OpenFirmware content: it has not been cleared yet.
> 

Just to be explicit: the dual socket G4 is the only type
of G3/G4 that does make it to the loader prompt (and a
little beyond). The G5 2 dual-core sockets is the only
context that I've tried that gets very far past the
loader prompt.


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