From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Thu Feb 20 10:27:06 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C482225BB19 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2020 10:27:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from mx0.gid.co.uk (mx0.gid.co.uk [194.32.164.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48NW3s4psZz48w7 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2020 10:27:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from [194.32.164.27] ([194.32.164.27]) by mx0.gid.co.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id 01KAR3Ui054632; Thu, 20 Feb 2020 10:27:03 GMT (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 10.3 \(3273\)) Subject: Re: Gone serial console on rpi3 From: Bob Bishop In-Reply-To: <20200220015158.GA55275@www.zefox.net> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 10:27:01 +0000 Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <20200220015158.GA55275@www.zefox.net> To: bob prohaska X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3273) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 48NW3s4psZz48w7 X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of rb@gid.co.uk designates 194.32.164.250 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=rb@gid.co.uk X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.25 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.998,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[gid.co.uk]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[250.164.32.194.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.10.0]; IP_SCORE(-0.55)[ip: (-1.98), ipnet: 194.32.164.0/24(-0.99), asn: 42831(0.31), country: GB(-0.07)]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:42831, ipnet:194.32.164.0/24, country:GB]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 10:27:06 -0000 Hi, > On 20 Feb 2020, at 01:51, bob prohaska wrote: >=20 > Lately it seems the serial console on my Pi3 has gone > missing. It's up and working for u-boot and loader,=20 > but once the kernel comes up the serial console falls > silent. First noticed about two weeks ago.=20 >=20 > Backing down to an old kernel doesn't seem to help, > as if something changed in userland. It appears that my > userland was corrupted by a USB flash during make installworld, > so lots of other things aren't working also... For now > I'm trying to dig myself out of that hole. >=20 > IIRC nothing special was needed to turn on the serial > console, if that's changed please clue me in. Well you do need to have the port turned on in /etc/ttys otherwise you = won=E2=80=99t get a getty on it. > On the plus side, single user mode now works with the > USB keyboard, which is a great help. >=20 > Thanks for reading, >=20 > bob prohaska >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 -- Bob Bishop rb@gid.co.uk