From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 25 21:27:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36296106564A for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:27:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A8268FC13 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:27:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B0BCD46B98; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:27:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.124]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3EA308A01B; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:27:55 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Przemyslaw Frasunek Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:04:04 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-CBSD-20110325; KDE/4.5.5; amd64; ; ) References: <4DA4A96F.9000507@frasunek.com> <201104181430.13886.jhb@freebsd.org> <4DAE153E.1010405@frasunek.com> In-Reply-To: <4DAE153E.1010405@frasunek.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201104251604.04784.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:27:55 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:27:56 -0000 On Tuesday, April 19, 2011 7:05:34 pm Przemyslaw Frasunek wrote: > > The _STA method is used to query a device's status, and a status of 0 means > > that the device is disabled. I believe that this means that when you have > > SOL enabled (SOLE?) that COM1 is marked inactive so the OS ignores the device. > > Good catch, thanks! I had a feeling, that it must be caused by firmware. Is > there any way to override above checks and make SIO detectable even with enabled > SOL? I don't think so. You can try swapping the hints for sio0 and sio1 and seeing if sio1 suddenly shows up as working and valid. If so, then the changes in 8 to bind unit numbers using hints might work for you to get COM1 back as sio0. -- John Baldwin