New tarball available

[Peter Grehan]

I've put up a tarball at:

  http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/ppc-root-102303.tbz2

(STOP PRESS: the loader in the tarball missed out on a vital
isync patch: please replace with the loader at
  http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/loader)

The kernel contains a syscons module that uses the 8-bit frame buffer set
up by OpenFirmware, so it should look very familiar to FreeBSD/i386 users.
It currently relies on having a USB keyboard, so if you have a system that 
uses an ADB keyboard (e.g. early iBooks, B&W G3), then you have to either 
attach a USB keyboard, or disable syscons at the loader prompt to use the
old ofw console

   OK set hw.syscons.disable=1

 But don't do this unless you really have to. Since USB is enabled in the 
kernel, this doesn't work too well on boxes with USB keyboards, but then, 
syscons is a way better console environment than ofwcons.

 For those who haven't installed before, there's some very terse instructions
at:

  http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/install.html

Make sure to have a strong sense of adventure and know how to use the
programmer's switch :-) And for kicks, syscons users should try this
on the console:

 # sh /usr/share/examples/dialog/radiolist

 ... and verify the first radio button :-) Also, check out VTY switching
using Alt-F? (aka Option-F?).

later,

Peter.