From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 23 20:59:11 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 886E5106568B for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:59:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@avioc.org) Received: from didy.avioc.org (mail.ipv6.avioc.org [IPv6:2001:4978:125:a00a::25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B81E8FC14 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:59:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (mail.internal.avioc.org [192.168.2.252]) by didy.avioc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9B513BAD7F; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:59:09 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at avioc.org Received: from didy.avioc.org ([192.168.2.252]) by localhost (mail.internal.avioc.org [192.168.2.252]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id zcWBKxrBykY0; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:59:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.2.8] (section-8.internal.avioc.org [192.168.2.8]) by didy.avioc.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 30EB43BAD69; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:59:08 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4ABA8C1B.9020607@avioc.org> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:59:07 -0500 From: Brandon Weisz User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Ullrich References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Serial console broken on RELENG_8 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:59:11 -0000 Scott Ullrich wrote: > Hello, > > We are noticing that serial no longer functions the same way it did in > 7.X when using -h or -D in /boot.config > > What we are seeing is this: > > Boot: 1 > /boot.config: -h > Consoles: serial port > BIOS drive C: is disk0 > BIOS 639kB/490496kB available memory > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 > (sullrich@freebsdcurrent.livebsd.com, Wed Sep 23 20:26:13 UTC 2009) > Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf > /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x789ca4 data=0x149434+0x80de0 - > | > Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. > Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... > \ > > And then the serial console stops functioning. > > This is on PC-Engine ALIX boards, VIA Embedded and anything else that > I can find here that only features a serial console (Nexcom, too). > > Does anyone have any suggestions? > Did you update device.hints? See 20080713 entry in /usr/src/UPDATING. sio(4) was replaced by uart(4). I just upgraded to RELENG_8 on a soekris board and my serial console is working properly. > My apologies if this is the wrong list. > > Thanks in advance, > > Scott > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >