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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2018 07:39:04 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>
Cc:        "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Lost my serial console! :-)
Message-ID:  <201811201539.wAKFd41t067299@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <c7fb20c1-267d-7058-5c4f-bff3f292f9d9@denninger.net>

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> On 11/19/2018 22:04, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> >> I built a 12-Stable pull for the Pi3 using Crochet this afternoon and it
> >> appeared to hang on boot (never started the kernel.)? In fact it did --
> >> but the com console has disappeared so as soon as the kernel was loaded
> >> I lost all output to the serial port.
> >>
> >> It's running; if I connect an ethernet cable and there's a DHCP server
> >> out there it will get an address and I can then connect and log into it.
> >>
> >> I tried setting it in the environment in uboot (and doing a "saveenv"),
> >> but that didn't work, nor did setting console="comconsole" in
> >> /boot/loader.conf.
> >>
> >> This used to come up by default but no longer does.... I'm obviously
> >> missing something stupid and would certainly like to fix it. :-)
> > You might check what all the various files on the 12.0-RC1 RPI3
> > image has, I just tested it and both the serial console and HDMI
> > video w/USB keyboard works.
> >
> > Crochet may of not caught up with some thing.
> I'll look into that; it's possible although there are no recent commits
> related to this (the latest was a size change for the Pine)... the other
> thing is a PI3B+ does not appear to boot at all but I need to grab the
> base image to see why since I have no serial console on the one I
> built.? Is this known (since that's the current hardware rev)?

I can not speak to the PI3B+ at all, I only have a PI3B,
I seem to recall someone having a issue on the PI3B+ though.
What hardware do you actually have?

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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