Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:04:55 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Subject: Re: serial console on 8.x (probably sio vs uart) Message-ID: <48CAA137.6040404@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <64026D00-137A-47AE-B03E-F6A3F3769101@mac.com> References: <p06240801c4ef771564d6@128.113.24.47> <75BD7074-F561-42D5-A537-FFF44B612BFB@mac.com> <e7db6d980809112310l298d7aaan5760c29f2fc052d9@mail.gmail.com> <48CA089B.6010102@elischer.org> <64026D00-137A-47AE-B03E-F6A3F3769101@mac.com>
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Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Sep 11, 2008, at 11:13 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: > >> Peter Wemm wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> >>> wrote: >>>> On Sep 11, 2008, at 7:09 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >>>> >>>>> After I boot up, the only /dev/tty* devices I have are ttyv0 >>>>> through ttyvf. I've installed the new /etc/ttys and a new >>>>> /boot/device.hints, though frankly device.hints has always >>>>> been a magic-box to me, so I just blindly copied what was in >>>>> GENERIC.hints and changed hint.uart.0.flags to be "0x30". >>>> uart(4) does tell you when it's the console: >>>> >>>> uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0 >>>> uart0: [FILTER] >>>> uart0: console (115200,n,8,1) >>>> >>>> The first question is: do you see a line like the one above? >>>> If not (most likely), try to boot explicitly with a serial >>>> console (i.e. set boot_serial=yes at the loader prompt or >>>> boot with -h). >>> He probably also needs to update his /boot/device.hints file. >>> (change sio to uart) >> >> I think uart should read 'sio' entries if there is no sio in the >> kernel, and it hasn't found any uart entries.. > > No. Hints are optional and misused as they are. We're > not making things any cleaner if we make driver X look > for hints for driver Y. > yeah but I almost bricked a machine the other day upgrading because I didn't have any uart hints but there were sio hints from the previous kernel that would have done the job.
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