(244906) installers for FreeBSD fail to boot HP ProBook 440 G7

This is now identified as FreeBSD bug 244906: kernel booted by loader.efi on VMware Fusion crashes in EFI firmware ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to

review request: loader: implement framebuffer console

hi! I have been working on proper framebuffer support on FreeBSD loader and there is the current state: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27420 All feedback is welcome, and especially if you can spare some time for testing:) thanks, toomas __

Re: port build fails with missing sys/smr_types.h

On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 4:43 PM Mark Johnston wrote: ... > $ fetch > http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/13.0-CURRENT/amd64/20201126/FreeBSD-13.0-CURRENT-amd64-20201126-9e082d278b9.raw.xz > $ unxz FreeBSD-13.0-CURRENT-amd64-20201126-9e082d278b9.raw.xz > $ sudo mdconfig -a -f Fre

Re: Removing obsolete GDB 6.1.1 for FreeBSD 13

Adding the FreeBSD-stable list to CC for more visibility. On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 12:43, Ed Maste wrote: > > I would like to remove GDB 6.1.1 before FreeBSD 13, and propose to > switch the GDB knob to default to NO in the near future. If the > crashinfo utility and related man pages do not already

Re: review request: loader: implement framebuffer console

Hi Toomas, thanks for working on this. I have a build running and report back the results from Hyper-V FreeBSD instance. --Gordon PS: A few months ago I had a look at all the OpenSolaris incarnations and this feature was something I had on my TODO list for FreeBSD for a very long time. :) On Fr

Re: review request: loader: implement framebuffer console

Tested on a recent -CURRENT, no problems seen so far. Is there a special src.conf setting that is necessary for a complete build / test sequence. --Gordon On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 11:24:25AM +0200, Toomas Soome wrote: > I have been working on proper framebuffer support on FreeBSD loader and there

Deprecating userland a.out support

FreeBSD has used ELF binaries/libraries for decades, but still has support for legacy a.out binaries. Portions of this have been retired over time, and I propose removing the remaining pieces before FreeBSD 13. I'm not proposing making any change to kernel a.out support, but users needing userland

Re: review request: loader: implement framebuffer console

> On 4. Dec 2020, at 23:03, Gordon Bergling wrote: > > Tested on a recent -CURRENT, no problems seen so far. > > Is there a special src.conf setting that is necessary for a > complete build / test sequence. > > --Gordon No, except that the last update did change default for bios loader to te

How to clear the 'remove:' line from 'zpool status'

So I stupidly did a 'zpool add' instead of a 'zpool attach'. Luckily I was able to 'zpool remove' the device thanks to the remove work done a while back. However, now I can't for the life of me get this part of the 'zpool status' output to go away: pool: zroot state: ONLINE scan: scrub repa