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 away in early 2018-Mar)Received on Tue Jan 12 2021 - 22:14:50 UTC
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:41:26 UTC