Old PowerMacs, Giant, and stable/13 branch and other futures: What is the intent?
Mark Millard via freebsd-ppc <[email protected]>
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PowerMac G5's and G4's with not much in them or connected to them report: WARNING: Device "openfirm" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 13.0. WARNING: Device "kbd" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 13.0. There is also, using and example G4 that I have access to, WARNING: Device "agp" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 13.0. WARNING: Device "consolectl" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 13.0. There could be more than I'm reporting. Such warnings are from post-git-conversion builds that I've done (given the lack of artifacts.ci.freebsd.org materials to test with). The 13 "Code slush" started on 2021-Jan-08. stable/13 is scheduled to branch on 2021-Jan-22. What is the intended status for these old powerc64 and 32-bit powerpc machines, given that the Giant use still exists? Intended status for 13? For 14? (There may be other types of issues that I'm not thinking of as well.) Another that used to happen on both G5's and G4's that I have/had access to: WARNING: Device "powermac_nvram" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 13.0. I'm unsure if this one is modal in some way and it I happen to be using a mode that avoided the usage. (I do not normally run an unpatched FreeBSD on old PowerMacs as well.) === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"