From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 9 10:28:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C06C16A4CE; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 10:28:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (transport.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3C6F43D31; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 10:28:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B4971FFDDB; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 12:28:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id BD3661FFDD6; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 12:28:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix, from userid 1060) id 67D7E154DA; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 10:27:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D07815329; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 10:27:24 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 10:27:24 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net To: Robert Watson In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS cksoft-s20020300-20031204bz on transport.cksoft.de cc: FreeBSD current mailing list Subject: Re: losing serial console X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 10:28:10 -0000 On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Robert Watson wrote: > > ok I further tested things and cannot get serial console with either > > 4BSD or ULE with sources from around 20040707-2120 UTC so it's not a > > problem of the scheduler. > > If you back out to before July 2, 2004, does life get any better? That's > the day John committed the preemption changes. if I am right this got fixed in the last hours so HEAD should be ok now ? I am currently running cvs up. > > here's what a show gives before booting: > > > Anyone ? > > All your settings looke reasonable to me. Has anything changed WRT ACPI > use on your system in the last week? Nate committed the ACPI blacklist > stuff, and I have several boxes that fail to properly use serial ports > when not using ACPI. If ACPI suddenly turned off, that could have > triggered the problem? pre-loading acpi didn't make any differences. Not that I had expected this on a P200. I have just verified that a complete build from 20040417-1155 from home boots up fine with serial console (same kernconf, same make.conf). where does the kernel learn the things from the loader/pxeboot i.e. comsonsole and boot -h ? -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT