From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Aug 30 15:27:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A51637B43C for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:27:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA71069; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:27:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200008302227.PAA71069@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: Console problems on alpha with -current In-Reply-To: <200008302104.e7UL4GG94187@netplex.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "Aug 30, 2000 02:04:16 pm" To: Peter Wemm Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:27:11 -0700 (PDT) Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Peter Wemm wrote: > > This in turn affects the probe order, judging from the dmesg output. > > The ultimate effect is this difference: > > > > bad: sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> > > good: sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x200> > > > > which I suspect is the reason the console isn't working right. The > > 0x200 flag (actually stored in the "config" field of the softc struct) > > is SC_KERNEL_CONSOLE. > > *blink*... > > It seems that the loader sorts the variables that it passes through to the > kernel. Why this makes a difference is puzzling me somewhat. However, > the Alpha console probe code is totally different to the i386 console probe > code. I suspect that is the root cause of it. Mike Smith has suggested that the kenv pointer might not be initialied before the console init on the alpha for some reason... > Cheers, > -Peter -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message