Re: Old PowerMacs, Giant, and stable/13 branch and other futures: What is the intent?

On 2021-Jan-12, at 13:11, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.)
> 



It turns out that the below was apparently dealt with in
13-CURRENT's -r362406 ( 37f530582dc5 ).

> 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.)
> 

powermac_nvram had its Giant lock use removed/replaced, no modal
issue is involved.


===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
( dsl-only.net went
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