Re: booting NetBSD 9 on a 2010 imac?

Greg Troxel <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:07:26 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.x86-64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Greg Troxel <[email protected]> writes:

>      iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010)
>      Model Identifier:  iMac11,2
>      Processor Name:    Intel Core i3
>      Processor Speed:   3.06 GHz
>      Number Of Processors:      1
>      Total Number Of Cores:     2
>      L2 Cache (per core):       256 KB
>      L3 Cache:  4 MB
>      Memory:    4 GB (since updated to 12G)
>      MC508LL/A
>      A1311 (EMC 2389)

For anyone reading the archives later:

  "userconf disable radeon*" works, in that no radeon is attached and
  whatever DRM/KMS stuff would happen doesn't happen.

  "userconf disable radeon0" still leads to a blank screen.

  there were no reports about NetBSD experience on this model
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