Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:29:29 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sparc64/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <20050312022929.GB76316@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050312032213.E55534@newtrinity.zeist.de> References: <200501300927.j0U9RnQU008885@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050310193237.GA52299@dragon.nuxi.com> <20050311093740.B55534@newtrinity.zeist.de> <20050311182519.GA8792@dragon.nuxi.com> <20050312010210.D55534@newtrinity.zeist.de> <42324C27.1080700@locore.ca> <20050312032213.E55534@newtrinity.zeist.de>
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On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 03:22:13AM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 08:55:51PM -0500, Jake Burkholder wrote: > > David may be using ttyb. It seems that uart_cpu_sparc64.c assumes ttya > > if input-device is keyboard and output-device is screen, but the > > firmware handles for stdin and stdout are equal. > > > > I can't think of a clean way to fix this, maybe get the handles for > > stdin and stdout and then search the firmware tree for a matching > > device? Or it may be possible to use stdin and stdout directly somehow. > > Correct, uart(4) assumes ttya in case the keyboard is not plugged > in but that's also what OFW does on all boxes I've seen so far. IIRC > this is also documented somewhere in the OFW or Sun specs. > David, could you please hook up a monitor to the Blade 100? OFW > displays a message on the screen where it switches the console to > in case input-device=keyboard and output-device=screen but no > keyboard is plugged in. > Could you _please_ also test if uart(4) works as serial console > if you set both input-device and output-device to ttya? I will when I can reboot the machine next time and have the time to rebuild the kernel. Can you ask this testing of a larger audience on freebsd-sparc64? So many people say they love testing things. :-) -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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