OFW stdout (Was: CVS commit: src/sys/arch)

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 13:33:13 +0000, Rin Okuyama wrote:

> Modified Files:
> 	src/sys/arch/macppc/stand/ofwboot: Locore.c
> 	src/sys/arch/powerpc/oea: ofw_consinit.c
> 
> Log Message:
> When boot up with auto-boot? == true, some systems do not provide stdout
> if the normal output is screen.
> 
> Open screen explicitly as stdout in this case, both for ofwboot and kernel,
> which fixes problems with auto-boot? == true for Mac mini G4:
> 
> - messages from ofwboot do not appear
> - kernel freeze during early boot stage
> 
> Taken from OpenBSD:
> http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/macppc/macppc/ofw_machdep.c#rev1.3
> http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/macppc/stand/Locore.c#rev1.3

Yay, thanks for overcoming the power of inertia!  I guess everyone is
so used to the OFW workaround that nobody bothered to fix this.

Thanks.

-uwe