From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 20 00:32:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23DEFBD4 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:32:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from vps.hungerhost.com (vps.hungerhost.com [216.38.53.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDA188FC0A for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:32:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 50-201-81-66-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([50.201.81.66]:46553 helo=[10.0.226.32]) by vps.hungerhost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1TPMyq-0001wo-HC; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:31:56 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Subject: Re: boot2/loader: serial port handling From: George Neville-Neil In-Reply-To: <20121018214832.GB8009@ambrisko.com> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:31:54 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <5078A803.7070705@delphij.net> <5078B145.4090501@delphij.net> <20121018214832.GB8009@ambrisko.com> To: Doug Ambrisko X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - vps.hungerhost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - neville-neil.com Cc: Garrett Cooper , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, d@delphij.net X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:32:03 -0000 On Oct 18, 2012, at 14:48 , Doug Ambrisko wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 05:13:47PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > | On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Xin Li wrote: > | > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > | > Hash: SHA256 > |=20 > | ... > |=20 > | > Ah I wish I am not this far behind my email backlog. Yes I think > | > these (241300 and 241301) will solve the problem. > |=20 > | Yeah -- forgot about the other one. There's another enhancement > | that would make this even better (apart from maybe having multiple > | primary consoles): setting the primary console if present and having > | fallbacks in the event that the original primary wasn't set or > | configurable; it was a thing that was present in another project I > | worked on with sio that was pretty slick (and I think that there = would > | be some parties who wouldn't mind if the same was done with = uart(4)). >=20 > This concept was objected to when I checked it into sio(4) so I had > to back it out. Some liked it. I have ported it to uart(4) since we > need that functionality when we moved to a newer FreeBSD. BTW, sorry to come in late on the thread. Would this cause the loader to reset the machine? On a box in my work testlab I have not been able to use a recent /boot/loader for a few weeks. I get to the BIOS drive C: is disk0 = =20 bit and BOOM. Best, George=