Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:28:33 +0200 From: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Jim Pingle <lists@pingle.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCengines ALIX boot0sio serial input failes Message-ID: <E1NIdRx-0005yN-D0@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <4B1FD3D8.8000300@pingle.org> References: <E1NIPAr-000Li8-Pl@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <4B1FD3D8.8000300@pingle.org>
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> On 12/9/2009 11:13 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: > > hi, > > FreeBSD-8 works great on these boards, but there are some > > gotchas, the boot and the serial: output works fine, but input > > is 'problematic'. the pxeboot serial handling is ok, the boot menu > > is ok, but booting off the CF (using boot0sio), the input 'screwy' > > at the selection of partition it is ignored, at the OK: prompt > > from the boot (i had no kernel in the slice), the input is usually > > doubled: > > sshooww instead of show > > which is probably similar to what is happening with boot0sio but it > > only echoes # (the current bell). > > > > Once the kernel is up, the serial works fine. > > The development version of pfSense (2.0) is running on FreeBSD 8.0 using > NanoBSD and its serial input/output works pretty well on ALIX, the > 2d3.2d13 version at least (and others, but those are the only two I have > used personally). > > My test ALIX is at home unplugged at the moment, but based on what I see > in the image file there are a few things that were done: > > /boot/device.hints contains: > hint.uart.0.at="isa" > hint.uart.0.port="0x3F8" > hint.uart.0.flags="0x10" > hint.uart.0.irq="4" > > /boot.config contains: > -h > > The initial boot0cfg on an image is done with: > boot0cfg -B -b /path/to/boot/boot0sio -o packet -s 1 -m 3 <device> > > Here is what shows up when I mount an md device from a CF image: > # boot0cfg -v /dev/md0 > # flag start chs type end chs offset size > 1 0x80 0: 1: 1 0xa5 444: 15:63 63 448497 > 2 0x00 445: 1: 1 0xa5 889: 15:63 448623 448497 > 3 0x00 890: 0: 1 0xa5 991: 15:63 897120 102816 > > version=2.0 drive=0x80 mask=0x3 ticks=182 bell=# (0x23) > options=packet,update,nosetdrv > volume serial ID 9090-9090 > default_selection=F1 (Slice 1) > > Seems to work pretty well there. If you want the details, you can check > out the pfSense tools git repository which contains the build scripts > that generate the images. I have the same /boot/device.hints. can you confirm that 1) when booting from CF, the boot0sio accepts input 2) the /boot/boot accepts input from the serial? thanks, danny
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