[BRLTTY] brltty.app on FreeBSD

[Joe Nosay]

Ok,
I will try to get back to this project after a few things in life.
I did run the autocfg or so script on an aarch64 device running android.
For reason that the ppc/ppc64 mac devices have a flattened device
tree/device tree and not the direct acpi and boot loader:
1. The device needs to be checked from the open firmware boot loader that
free bsd must chain load into before loading freebsd.
2. UEFI and EFI do not provide the exact same function as the open firmware
loader, das uboot, the android RISC loader,
 petitboot, or the sparc/64 boot loader.
3. I have not checked if there are any "--help" options for autocfg while
there are for "configure --help".
4. I need to buy more RAM since 13.x allows over the 2gb hardware limit.
I have two imac g5 devices with the second being an isight. That one will
be dedicated to freebsd.
5. I am wondering if the kernel change on 13.x for memory can be written to
the netbsd kernel to allow a greater gb ram access.
If not, I may be trying and comparing brl.tty build between Free and Net
BSDs on similar machines. The other is a standard imac g5 non isight.
6. If anyone does this along with me when I have a good start:
a. You will have to build the system from ports and list your options.
b. This project will be shared with the American with disabilities act.
This will allow people to know the exact setup. I have thought about it.
PKg build up does not give the reason for each option when making the
package.
For example, if heimdall options causes more trouble and that is the
package option
then using the package will cause trouble in testing the brl.tty
application/service.

RISC and CISC are not the same.
Compiling, functioning, etc
even the crystal oscillator are completely different.
I do not currently know which RISC powerpc/power devices run as bare metal
or through some
virtual setup.
I need to make sure that g5/970 ?? run as bare metaal and that bare metal
can be accesed on others.
LIve CD/DVD/usb images will need to be tested and ran.
I do not know as to the best dm/gui environment and the amount of available
space.
Is it possible to have a live or "permanent" system that is able to load
and test the proper drivers randomly.
I do npot have any type of account with the open power foundation. IBM will
definitely need to be contacted
for some information.



On Sat, Apr 6, 2024 at 10:01 PM Brian Buhrow <buhrow at nfbcal.org> wrote:

>         hello.  I built Brltty a number of years ago on NetBSD, which is a
> close sibling of
> FreeBSD.  So, I think you'll find it pretty easy to accomplish the task.
> -thanks
> -Brian
>
> On Apr 7,  3:25am, Alfonso Sabato Siciliano wrote:
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> } > Has anyone built brltty on a ppc64 machine and or FreeBSD?
> } >
> }
> } I am interested to build brltty on FreeBSD. Currently I am trying to
> build,
> } run and use brltty with the xwindow emulator on Linux, then I=E2=80=99
> ll s=
> } tart to
> } try to build and/or adapt brltty on FreeBSD.
> }
> } Best regards,
> } Alfonso
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